My windows 98 took a dump. I installed XP, and it went
onto the Fat32 partition. I lost most of my programs &
files from windows 98. I can't even defrag, because it
tells me I only have 2% of my memory left, but I have
hardly ANY working programs. When I bring up add/ delete
programs, there are only about 4 things listed. How can I
clear this up, free space, and is windows 98 still
there......? Geez, I feel so helpless! Please e mail me
privately at: (e-mail address removed)
Windows XP doesn't just "went to the FAT32 partition" by chance.
YOU must specifically point the installer to the partition YOU want it
to install to. If it went to the fat32 partition containing Windows
98, as you say, YOU are to blame, since YOU told the installer to put
it there. By the way, disk space is not referred to as "memory".
"Memory" refers to the random access memory chips attached to your
motherboard.
If YOU installed XP on the same partition as Windows 98 without
electing to do an upgrade install, you are in a world of hurt, and
must now delete the FAT32 partition, create a NEW partition (losing
all your programs and data), and install XP on THAT new partition,
since BOTH your Windows XP and Windows 98 file structures are probably
hopelessly(and unrecoverably) scrambled.
Personally, I advise you to delete then format all partitions and
start over without Windows 98 hanging around.
Your solution? Install XP to a NEWLY created and formatted partition
of at least 10gigs, after replaciing your current
(woefully-inadequate-for-XP hard drive) with at least a 40gb
harddrive. (You say that you receive out-of-disk-space errors. Easily
fixed with a hard drive upgrade. They are cheap nowadays. For two
nights corrousing at the local tavern, you can buy a new one which
would provide much more disk-space than your small unit.)
Donald L McDaniel
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