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Rollback from XP Home to Win98

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by billydaniels

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Hello!

I am trying to asisst a business user who has WinXP Home on one of his computers. What is the least destructive or invasive way to roll the system back to Win 98? XP doesn't have drivers for his peripherals - each a few years old - the the periphreal manufacturer has no plans to support XP.

He also has some 16 bit apps that run well on his Win 98 machine, but crash in XP.

I don't know if this machine came with XP or was upgraded. I suspect the former, He has a full version of Win 98 to use.

Thanks for your help!

Sincerely,

William A. Hall

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by thechas

First, check add/remove programs for removing XP.
If it was upgraded, it may be there. And uninstalling would be your easiest route.

If XP is not in add/remove programs, the next question, is how is the disk formated?
If the drive is formated in ntsf, you have no choice but to start over from fdisk to take the machine back to 98.

The best way either way, is to backup all data files and user info (isp, favorites, etc.)
Next, get a W98 startup disk.
Boot from the startup disk, and run fdisk
Delete all partitions, exit fdisk and reboot.
Create partitions as desired.
Exit and reboot.
Begin installing 98.

Remember to install the chipset drivers before installing device drivers.

Chas

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