reinstalling windows 98

[aaronep]

a friend of mine attempted to install Windows XP over an existing
installation of Windows 98.

It was not successful. He received error messages saying missing
"dlls".

My question is, is it possible to reinstall his original Windows 98
over XP?

If so, how would it be done? Is it possible to completely remove XP
from his system first without destroying his existing applications and
data?

All information welcomed!

Aaron in N. Hollywood

 

[Kardon Coupé]

I might stand corrected on this, but I think it isnt' possible.... only way
I think it might be possible, if you have the space on the HDD, you need a
program that you can access the HDD, i.e. a Linux live Boot CD or similar,
and rename all your files to old_program files, or old_windows, etc, then
boot from the Win98 boot floppy, and install windows.

You won't get your files back, as such, but they will be in folders that you
can read from your Windows98 Install.

Hope that helps...

 

[Ted Zieglar]

"...is it possible to reinstall his original Windows 98 over XP?"

No. A clean install is necessary to go back to Windows 98. But why go back
to an 8-year old operating system?

 

[philo]

a friend of mine attempted to install Windows XP over an existing
installation of Windows 98.

It was not successful. He received error messages saying missing
"dlls".

My question is, is it possible to reinstall his original Windows 98
over XP?

If so, how would it be done? Is it possible to completely remove XP
from his system first without destroying his existing applications and
data?

First off...
when installing XP, you get the option to format the drive first...
if you do that, you can probably get XP working ok.

If you do want to go back to win98 however...
if the drive was not converted to NTFS just formt the drive and install
win98

you can get a boot floppy from www.bootdisk.com if you need one

if the drive was converted to NTFS you will need to run fdisk and delete the
non-dos partition...
then recreate (as fat32) reboot
format and reinstall