I tried to reformat drive but it would not let me. Someone put windows xp on my older gateway laptop and there is not enough memory or HD space to support such a large OS. Could someone help me install win 98 over xp. I was told that it could be done through MS Dos. If so could you tell me step by step on how to do this? Much appreciate it.
2006-08-15 05:24:16 · 7 answers · asked by Vito 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You have to delete the existing partition (destroying ANY data on the drive) and recreate a FAT32 partition that Win98 can install on. The XP install is probably using NTFS on the C: drive which is not seen at all by Windows 98.
Read over this:
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-95-98-me/28516-cant-install-windows.html
2006-08-15 05:29:54 · answer #1 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What in the world would you want win 98 again for?? I'd get a hard drive expansion.. 98 sucks, and it doesn't support many functions that XP does.
2006-08-15 05:29:56 · answer #2 · answered by Bethany 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need a start up or boot disk
boot to floppy and type fdisk and erase the partition
make a partition ,make it active then reboot
at prompt type in format /c:then enter
then setup /c: then enter
the best boot disk is an me one e-mail me and i will send you the files in a zip
note if using me disk option 4 minimal boot first then option i1with CD ROM support
2006-08-19 01:39:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to bootdisk.com,download the full bootdisk for win98,copy to a floppy disk,then reboot computer to the floppy at the A:\ prompt just FORMAT c:\
2006-08-15 05:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by rdaltonsr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just create a MS-DOS startup floppy disc and put it in when you switch on your laptop. Now with msdos open the setup file of win98.
Thats it!!!!!!!!!
2006-08-15 21:44:38 · answer #5 · answered by Ankur 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific!! it relatively is a threat, why in the international would you opt for to thou is yet another tale. in case you have lots of RAM and enable’s say 50GB no longer common diskpersistent areas unfastened you're able to do it with something pronounced as digital Machines (VM). Do a seek for VM ware on the internet. notice thou that VM desire lots of RAM. think of Microsoft would desire to nevertheless have a unfastened version of VM.
2016-10-02 02:58:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.webtechgeek.com/windows-SuperTechGeek-Dual-Boot.htm
2006-08-15 05:30:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋