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I have a Toshiba laptop that currently has Windows XP Home installed. I want
to format it and return to the original Windows 98. Is this possible?

I have the 98 CD - I have no idea where the XP Home CD is - I have the XP
Pro CD for my desk top.

Can I format the laptop from the XP Pro CD and then insert the 98 CD for
installation. Seems to me I saw the instructions for this operation
somewhere, but cannot find them now that I am interested in doing such.

Any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

TIA

Bill
 
You do not use any XP CD to re-install Windows 98.

Insert the Windows 98 CD and follow the steps to do a full install. This
should remove the XP partition(s) and create the "new" Windows 98 partition.
 
*Warning - you will lose all data -- backup first*

Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, run Fdisk, delete partitions, create new
partitions, reboot to boot disk again, run format. Once formatted switch to
cd rom drive that has win98 cd in it(example: cd d:\). Type setup, hit
enter. Get boot disk here: www.bootdisk.com
 
EZDOIT said:
I have a Toshiba laptop that currently has Windows XP Home installed. I want
to format it and return to the original Windows 98. Is this possible?

I have the 98 CD - I have no idea where the XP Home CD is - I have the XP
Pro CD for my desk top.

Can I format the laptop from the XP Pro CD and then insert the 98 CD for
installation. Seems to me I saw the instructions for this operation
somewhere, but cannot find them now that I am interested in doing such.

Any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

TIA

Bill
Click to expand...

Befor formating note all devices (video, sound, modem, NIC etc) and make
sure you have drivers for them.
 
EZDOIT said:
I have a Toshiba laptop that currently has Windows XP Home installed. I want
to format it and return to the original Windows 98. Is this possible?

I have the 98 CD - I have no idea where the XP Home CD is - I have the XP
Pro CD for my desk top.

Can I format the laptop from the XP Pro CD and then insert the 98 CD for
installation. Seems to me I saw the instructions for this operation
somewhere, but cannot find them now that I am interested in doing such.

Any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

TIA

Bill
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You better have all the driver disks for the Toshiba handy as you'll
need to install all the Win98 hardware drivers for the chipset, video,
sound, NIC, etc. Unlike XP Win98 CD does NOT conatin any specific
hardware drivers. If you don't have the drivers CD or diskettes you
should be able to download all the drivers for that model from Toshiba.

You have to boot DOS (either from the Win98 CD or a Win98 startup
diskette), remove the old partition if it's NTFS, create a new
partition, reboot (if it's a fat32 partition you can skip the fdisk),
format the partition, then run setup on the Win98 CD.

Steve
 
Yves said:
You do not use any XP CD to re-install Windows 98.

Insert the Windows 98 CD and follow the steps to do a full install. This
should remove the XP partition(s) and create the "new" Windows 98 partition.
Click to expand...

It's a bit more complicated than that. Partitioning must be done
manually, for starters.

Steve
 
If the CD is a full Windows 98 install, then it should do the partition
during the install process.
 
As far as I know win98 cd's are not bootable, do not partition, and do not
format. You always had to use a win9x floppy boot disk and use fdisk and
format.
 
I have a Toshiba laptop that currently has Windows XP Home installed. I want
to format it and return to the original Windows 98. Is this possible?

I have the 98 CD - I have no idea where the XP Home CD is - I have the XP
Pro CD for my desk top.

Can I format the laptop from the XP Pro CD and then insert the 98 CD for
installation. Seems to me I saw the instructions for this operation
somewhere, but cannot find them now that I am interested in doing such.

Any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

TIA

Bill
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Not recommended. You probably will be unable to find drivers for the
many proprietary items that your Toshiba laptop uses. Aside from
that, you will also void any warranty and the free tech support
available from Toshiba via their 800 number. In other words, don't do
it!
 
Not recommended. You probably will be unable to find drivers for the
many proprietary items that your Toshiba laptop uses. Aside from
that, you will also void any warranty and the free tech support
available from Toshiba via their 800 number. In other words, don't do
it!
Click to expand...

Not at all. They are all on the Toshiba Website.
 
CS said:
Not recommended. You probably will be unable to find drivers for the
many proprietary items that your Toshiba laptop uses. Aside from
that, you will also void any warranty and the free tech support
available from Toshiba via their 800 number. In other words, don't do
it!
Click to expand...

The op said they wanted to return their computer to the original win98.
Sounds like the laptop came with win98 and they upgraded to to xp home at
some point in time. In that case going back should be painless. All the
drivers are on toshibas website.
 
Yves Leclerc said:
If the CD is a full Windows 98 install, then it should do the partition
during the install process.
Click to expand...

Wrong! any 98 version and ME are not bootable from the disk, one needs a
boot disk with the 98 or ME boot utilities on them to remove the previous
OS, format the drive/partition (which has to be FAT), then restart, with
the boot disk, and then choose to boot from a CDROM device.
 
Wrong! any 98 version and ME are not bootable from the disk, one needs a
boot disk with the 98 or ME boot utilities on them to remove the previous
OS, format the drive/partition (which has to be FAT), then restart, with
the boot disk, and then choose to boot from a CDROM device.
Click to expand...

Some OEM versions of 98/98SE and ME are on a bootable CD. The MS
retail copy of both are not bootable.
 
The op said they wanted to return their computer to the original win98.
Sounds like the laptop came with win98 and they upgraded to to xp home at
some point in time. In that case going back should be painless. All the
drivers are on toshibas website.
Click to expand...
You're right, I missed that. I stand corrected for the 100 x 50 to
the 4th power times.......
 
Greetings --

If you performed an upgrade from Win98/Me, elected to backup the
old system files, and didn't convert the partition to NTFS, then all
you need do is boot into Safe Mode and Start > Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs. All of these conditions _must_ be met for the
uninstall option to be available.

Otherwise:

How to Manually Remove Win XP and Restore Win9x
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314052

Bruce Chambers
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Steve said:
sound, NIC, etc. Unlike XP Win98 CD does NOT conatin any specific
hardware drivers.
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Incorrect. MS has been providing hardware drivers ever since win3.1x
when they went from a 6 disk win3.1 to an 8 disk win 3.11 setup.

The two additional disks were printer and video drivers. win98 has of
course a huge driver database as well. However, it may not have the
drivers needed for that laptop.
 
EZDOIT said:
I have a Toshiba laptop that currently has Windows XP Home installed. I want
to format it and return to the original Windows 98. Is this possible?

I have the 98 CD - I have no idea where the XP Home CD is - I have the XP
Pro CD for my desk top.

Can I format the laptop from the XP Pro CD and then insert the 98 CD for
installation.
Click to expand...

If you have the original Toshiba CD that should either boot or
*possibly* run from a Win98 startup floppy, to put the system back to
ex-factory state.

If you converted to NTFS you may have to boot and use the Win98 FDISK to
delete a 'non-DOS' partition before making a new DOS Primary one and
carrying on with the Win98 install. You *could* achieve that from a
boot of the XP Pro CD if you have no Win98 boot floppy; Boot the XP CD
direct. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install.
When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the
current partition . Leave it up to the 98 install to make a new one
 
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