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A little unclear here because I'm not certain. I think that'll be enough, but if not you may need to type FIXMBR, then FIXBOOT. I've never done this myself for something like this, but I believe you need to type FIXBOOT. Don't choose to setup Windows on your computer now! Just get to the Recovery Console. This is the first R! Not the one in Windows Setup. When asked, press R to get to the Recovery Console (to repair a current Windows Installation). The partition is still there and this won't touch your XP, but how do you get that back? Then you would need to format and start from scratch, and I'm sure you'd be happier if you had backed up first!Įdit - Oh! If you're currently dual-booting with XP, when done you'll notice you no longer have the XP boot loader when you start your computer. Make sure to back up any of your personal files first.
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Doing the upgrade this way you get to keep all the stuff that's on your hard drive working.
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They might not install from any cd's they gave you if you change (upgrade) the original operating system, so you'd lose them.
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And, if you bought your PC retail (not building it yourself) you would have the problem of losing whatever programs the computer manufacturer preinstalled. Of course the cleanest way is to start from scratch with a formatted hard drive and your 98SE cd, but then you'd need to reinstall all your programs. Then do all the Windows updates (Like the Unofficial 98SE Service Pack, etc). I'd do a repair install of any Microsoft Office installations you may have.
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I'd also uninstall your videocard driver and reinstall it or at least reinstall the latest version over the top if you're not comfortable with the process of fully removing drivers (using DriverCleaner and such). Reinstall the latest Direct X and Windows Media Player 9. Then I'd recommend reinstalling your motherboard chipset drivers (AGP, etc) over themselves even if Windows setup seemed to install them fine. When setup is finished you will need to install your favorite version of Internet Explorer (the latest available is IE6 SP1). If you had let it install to a different folder, you'd be messed up. The point is to install it over your current Windows folder so it will upgrade all the files but still allow your installed programs to work. That's assuming that is where you have the Windows folder now. Since setup will detect a C:\Windows folder, it will by default want to install to a new folder like C:\windows001. Then just type the command setup and it will start. Then you can just type the letter of your cd drive to access it (usually E: if you've just got one hard drive). Delete the win.com file in C:\Windows (or C:\Windows\System - I forget). You need to startup from a Windows 98 Startup floppy (make one from Add/Remove Programs). First you need to uninstall Internet Explorer from Add/Remove Programs so the version on the cd will install correctly. You're cd of Windows 98 Second Edition CAN be used to upgrade, just not officially. So you've got Windows 98 1st Edition there. Yep, the released version of Windows 98 was called Windows 98 Gold. I don't keep it there, but it's nice for a little nostalgia. Apply that in Display Properties and I'm looking at that old fashioned 98 green desktop that is even more old fashioned than the Windows 2000 desktop you get when just using the Classic theme that XP comes with. Then I make a shortcut to the Marbles.exe file in the Start Menu and it plays perfect on XP! It's one of those programs that don't need the registry entries.Īlso cool is my "Original Desktop" theme that happened to be one of the Themes I saved. I also saved the few screensavers that work (the animated ones like Garfield) on XP and put them into the System32 folder. I usually make a Plus! folder in XP's Program Files and copy the Themes and that Marbles folder to it. Well, I always install it when I use 98, but these days I only have an XP and a Vista partition. I saved the Plus! folder when I had Microsoft Plus!98 installed on 98SE. It's a great time waster if I want something more graphically pretty than solitare! (Although they fancied that one up in the Vista Beta's.)