Convert Win XP to Win98

Long and short of it, no. Most winxp installations use the NTFS file system and windows 98 is totally incompatible with it. Even if XP was installed using FAT32, it would not be possible to back it down to win9x/ME, however if XP was installed with FAT32 and their is sufficient space on the drive it is possible to create a partition with a utility like Partition Magic and install 9x/ME on the second partition in a dual boot fashion, and would allow access to data but not programs on the xp partition (again if XP were installed with the FAT32 file system. In my opinion XP is far better than either 98 or ME (especially ME) and if all they wanted was a more "traditional" appearance they could change the default theme to appear as classic windows (windows 2000)......

I aggree with Chris. If you do decide to use Partition magic. Setup win 98 on the first partition of the hard drive. What I'd do is resize the XP partition moving it to the 7GB point on the hd. Next in the free space I just created, I'd create a primary partition and format it with Fat32. Next I'd hide the XP partition and make the new 1 active. Now your ready to install win 98 on the new partition. Once you have win98 up and running install boot magic on win98 partition or keep XP hidden. Before you start make sure you can get win98 drivers for all your hardware and if you know how to use ghost or other imaging software I'd make an image of XP before starting. I also like to make a 3rd fat32 data partition so I can access my data from both OSs.

Hope this helps I know it's more then you asked for

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