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Reinstalling win 98 SE

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by j_srour

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Hello,
I am having all sorts of glitches with Win explorer due to a Beta Win 98 copy installed on my PC by an acquaintance. So, I am opting to Uninstall and replace it with either an OEM 98 Se copy or a Win XP copy.
1. How to copy Bookmarks, and Address book.
2. Clean sweep current hard drive.
That is about it. Thanks for any help from any one on this site.
regards,

Joseph.

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by thechas

Book Marks:
IE, just copy the contents of the favorites folder onto floppy disks or a CD
Netscape, varies by version.
You need to locate your user profile, and copy the folder onto floppies or a CD.

Address Book:
Use the export option from the menus of your mail; program and copy it onto floppies or a CD.

To load W98, you need a startup disk.
It should be for the same version as you plan to install.
Boot from the startup floppy,
From the DOS prompt type in
format C: /u /s

Insert the CD into the CD drive, and run setup.

Before you start, it is a good idea to download and have on hand the device driver install files for ALL hardware devices.

Chas

by opatzg9

As an addendum to chas' download the latest motherboard drivers as well. Especially if you're using an agp graphics card. Good Luck

by stuart_at_oz

If you have too much data on your HDD that you don't want to wipe with a FORMAT, you could try starting in DOS mode, and renaming the WINDOWS directory, and then moving this renamed directory into another directory. Then do a reinstall....

I did this recently, renamed the WINDOWS directory to RUBBISH and moved it to the C:\TEMP directory (so it was C:\TEMP\RUBBISH).

This of course assumes you have enough room on your HDD for two copies of windows, but has the advantage that everything is still there.

You will of course need to reinstall all the programs, but you should be able to copy your favourites from the old directory, and even find the old address book to import into the new installation.

'luck

Stuart

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