Reloading old operating system

[Guest]

A couple of months ago I upgraded my operating system from Windows 98SE to
Windows XP Home. I formatted the drive and did a clean install, the file
system is NTFS.
I am now fed up with XP constantly generating errors on programs that I use
daily and shutting them down, also it`s inability to load older Microsoft
programs such as Encarta World Atlas without messing about in the registry.
I now want to go back to Windows 98SE and normality.

If I put the Windows 98 Disk into the CD drive and select the option "Will
format drive and load Windows 98" will this convert the drive back to FAT32
and load windows 98,or will I have to convert the drive to FAT32 first?

 

[Dave Patrick]

To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows XP CD-Rom and when you get to the point, delete the
existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the install. Or use
a utility named delpart. Once removed you can boot the win98 CD-Rom or
restore CD-Rom to start your install.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|A couple of months ago I upgraded my operating system from Windows 98SE to
| Windows XP Home. I formatted the drive and did a clean install, the file
| system is NTFS.
| I am now fed up with XP constantly generating errors on programs that I
use
| daily and shutting them down, also it`s inability to load older Microsoft
| programs such as Encarta World Atlas without messing about in the
registry.
| I now want to go back to Windows 98SE and normality.
|
| If I put the Windows 98 Disk into the CD drive and select the option "Will
| format drive and load Windows 98" will this convert the drive back to
FAT32
| and load windows 98,or will I have to convert the drive to FAT32 first?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You need to delete the NTFS partition and create a primary DOS one first.
Win98 setup will not know what do to with an NTFS partition. Some system
recovery disks automatically wipe the entire drive, and may not be
encumbered by this - for the rest you will need to boot a startup floppy and
run fdisk to remove the non-dos partition. Then create the FAT32 one, reboot
to the floppy and format before installing Win98.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Thanks guy`s, I knew I could rely on you to come up with an answer.I really
appreciate you being there for us.

Happy New Year

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks guy`s, I knew I could rely on you to come up with an answer.I
really
| appreciate you being there for us.
|
| Happy New Year

 

[Alex Nichol]

A couple of months ago I upgraded my operating system from Windows 98SE to
Windows XP Home. I formatted the drive and did a clean install, the file
system is NTFS.
I am now fed up with XP constantly generating errors on programs that I use
daily and shutting them down, also it`s inability to load older Microsoft
programs such as Encarta World Atlas without messing about in the registry.
I now want to go back to Windows 98SE and normality.

I have found no need to 'mess about in the registry' in order to run
that Atlas, but that is BTW

If I put the Windows 98 Disk into the CD drive and select the option "Will
format drive and load Windows 98" will this convert the drive back to FAT32
and load windows 98,or will I have to convert the drive to FAT32 first?

Boot the Win98 startup floppy; use FDISK to 'delete non-DOS partition'
and make a new DOS primary. You can't convert back and will need to
back up all data and re-install software