Install 98 to replace NT

1)Check the file system you have if it is NTFS you will need to uninstall by using a third party software partition magic or use your setup disk for NT/
Insert Disk 1 and boot up system at the beginning review the setup procedure and select to how to remove partition,hit F3 to exit seup and follow the procedure to uninstall.
FDISK cannot read an NTFS partition.
After uninstalling NT partition
reboot computer with the Win98 start-up disk and at the command prompt you can use Fdisk to partition your hard drive,if you dont need to partition ,then after the uninstall of NT you should be ready to install WIN98 using startup disk with CD ROM support.
Good Luck

Hi, please e-mail me with some specifics about your current configuration. For example, is dos installed on your machine? Is your drive or partitions set up on the fat file system or ntfs? Since neither dos (a dos boot disk) or 98 (a 98 boot disk) can read ntfs, the step-by-step instructions will depend on your current configuration. Please e-mail me. Thanks.

Hi Tech
Please note that there is no way to upgrade from any version of Win/NT to win9X for primery resons.
1- NTFS is not supported in win9x.
2-Registry structure is not identical for both systems.
3- Most devie drivers are diffrent for both systems.
You can dual boot the 2 system or create new Win98 operating system alone after you backup your data and have installtion disks or cd for your installed programs for the new WIN98 system and device drivers for your devices.
To dual boot Win98 with Win/NT you have to have a new FAT 16 partition or new hard disk and the zise should not be less than the minimum rquiered size for the operation system aproxmitly 200 MB of free space.
2- Another option is to use partition utility such as Partition-It or Partition Magic to create new partition. (if the created partion is made with a utility othar than FDISK then you must have either of these utilities.

To make it short for you if you need Win9x operating system only please DO thesesteps:
1- Backup your data first (very improtant first step for doing any thing with your operating system)
2-Get your devices drivers for Win98 if needed ready.
3- Get your installed program installation disks or CD's for Win98 ready.
4- Get Win98 installtion CD's.
4-Repartition your Disk to or some of it as Fat/16.
5-Have Win98 startup disk (you can create it from a running win98 system by start -> setting -> control panel -> add program then tap to startup disk then click create disk
or have a boot disk (DOS or win95) and the driver for your CD-ROM for dos DOS and mscdex.exe program on it an the setting for it on A:\Config.sys (device= A\xxx.sys xxxxxxxx.
and the setting of mscdex.exe in your A:\ Autoexec.bat.
6- Boot from the floppy.
7-Run fdisk to partition your hard disk. (make Sure your first is FAT/16).
8-Format your first partion wich should be C: drive.
9- Create a driectory call it say INS

First create a win98 boot disk. Insert it. Start PC. Run fdisk. Choose #4. Delete all. Create dos partition. Make it active. Reformat hard drive. Install OS.

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