Upgrade 95 to 98 with Xp installed

[Guest]

Alrighty now.

I have two hard drives in my computer, one with XP-home installed, the other
with windows 95b installed.

What I want to do is upgrade 95 to 98, but when I tried from 95, an error
message came up saying "there is an O.S. installed that cannot be upgraded"
or something to that same effect.

What can I do to upgrade 95 to 98?

 

[Li'l Roberto]

Alrighty now.

I have two hard drives in my computer, one with XP-home installed, the
other
with windows 95b installed.

What I want to do is upgrade 95 to 98, but when I tried from 95, an error
message came up saying "there is an O.S. installed that cannot be
upgraded"
or something to that same effect.

What can I do to upgrade 95 to 98?

Are you using the upgrade version of win98 ?

rgds
Li'l Roberto

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You need "Retail Upgrade Version" of Windows 98 in order
to upgrade over Windows 95.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| Alrighty now.
|
| I have two hard drives in my computer, one with XP-home installed, the other
| with windows 95b installed.
|
| What I want to do is upgrade 95 to 98, but when I tried from 95, an error
| message came up saying "there is an O.S. installed that cannot be upgraded"
| or something to that same effect.
|
| What can I do to upgrade 95 to 98?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You need "Retail Upgrade Version" of Windows 98 in order
to upgrade over Windows 95.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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:

| Alrighty now.
|
| I have two hard drives in my computer, one with XP-home installed, the other
| with windows 95b installed.
|
| What I want to do is upgrade 95 to 98, but when I tried from 95, an error
| message came up saying "there is an O.S. installed that cannot be upgraded"
| or something to that same effect.
|
| What can I do to upgrade 95 to 98?

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Is your version of 98 and OEM version? If so you will have to make a rather
simple hack
Boot to Windows 95 and do a search in C:\Windows for a file called Win.com
Change the name to Win.old
Now try the upgrade.

If you can't rename Win.com that way you can boot with a Windows 98 Start-up
floppy then change to the location of the C:\Windows directory like this.
From the A:> prompt type C: and press Enter. That will put you into C drive.
At the C:> prompt type the following CD WINDOWS and press Enter. That will
put you into C:\Windows. Next type the following REN WIN.COM WIN.OLD and
press the Enter key. That will rename the file.

Now try your upgrade. The Windows 98 OEM disk shouldn't find a previous OS
and continue as normal.

 

[Guest]

This is assuming C: is my windows XP drive, right?
I change the win.com for windows xp to win.old, not the one for 95?

 

[Guest]

Is your version of 98 and OEM version? If so you will have to make a rather
simple hack
Boot to Windows 95 and do a search in C:\Windows for a file called Win.com
Change the name to Win.old
Now try the upgrade.

No dice.
I renamed the file and tried the upgrade. I still got the same error method.