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Install Win 98 over XP

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by mozster

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I have a PC pre-installed with XP Home that I want to take to Win'98 as per our corporate standard.
Whats the best way to do this?
Can you just run the Win'98 setup.exe whilst XP is loaded or can you reboot into a DOS level or command prompt and install it from there?

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by dmiles

The option would be to wipe the drive and do a clean install of Windows 98

Use a Windows 98 startup disk,at command prompt type in FDISK

Follow the onsccreen instructions to partition and format the drive

Now you can run setup to install 98

by mozster

Will booting from the Win98 startup disk give me dos based access to the CDrom letter to install the Win98 CD from though?

by syscokid

To answer your second question, yes. Make the boot disk from a Win 98 machine by going to Control Panel, Add\Remove Programs, and the boot disk will have DOS-based CDROM support. When you boot, it will ask if you want to load the CDROM driver.

by thechas

soulrider gave you the correct answer.
This is just in case he doesn't get back to you to answer your comment.

If you use an actual W98 startup disk (you can create one on any W98 PC)
then yes, you will be able to access the CD.
If, you say yes when prompted to install CD support.

To create a W98 startup disk;
go to Control Panel
add/remove programs
and click on the startup disk tab.
Then, follow the instructions.

Chas

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