Uninstalling Windows 98

[Guest Lucia]

I got this computer used and dont know the owners, First of all. It has Win

98 installed on it, and I bought the Wind XP to upgrade it . When I went to

do this it said it wont go over the Win98 program to uninstall. I cannot find

uninstalling Win98 Anywhere on my computer. I've checked all obvious places..

Can you Help?

[Guest John John]

Re: Uninstalling Windows 98

 

You should be asking about this on an XP group, it isn't really a

Windows 98 problem.

 

What kind of Windows XP cd did you buy? It sounds like it is an OEM cd,

OEM versions cannot be used to upgrade previous Windows installations.

 

You don't really "uninstall" operating systems as such, to get rid of an

operating system you backup the user files that you want to keep then

you format the drive and install the operating system of your choice.

 

Go in the BIOS and set the boot order so that the computer boots to the

CD-ROM drive first, then insert the XP cd in the drive and boot the

computer with it. After you press F8 to accept the EULA you will get to

the Disk/Partition selection screen, at that screen select the option to

format the partition on which you want to install XP and do a clean

install. If the cd is an "Upgrade" cd it will still give you the option

to format and install cleanly, you should select that option instead of

the option to upgrade Windows 98 while keeping the existing files, you

don't know what kind of bugs, virus, spyware or unsavory files might be

on the disk so don't take chances keeping the old files, format the disk

and get rid of all that is on it. For better performance format the

partition to the NTFS file system.

 

John

 

Lucia wrote:

> I got this computer used and dont know the owners, First of all. It has Win

> 98 installed on it, and I bought the Wind XP to upgrade it . When I went to

> do this it said it wont go over the Win98 program to uninstall. I cannot find

> uninstalling Win98 Anywhere on my computer. I've checked all obvious places..

> Can you Help?

[Guest Brian A.]

Re: Uninstalling Windows 98

 

"Lucia" <Lucia @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I got this computer used and dont know the owners, First of all. It has Win

> 98 installed on it, and I bought the Wind XP to upgrade it . When I went to

> do this it said it wont go over the Win98 program to uninstall. I cannot find

> uninstalling Win98 Anywhere on my computer. I've checked all obvious places..

> Can you Help?

 

You don't need to know the owners, you need to know the product and it's worth.

You mention it as a used machine with 98 installed and depending on how used (aged)

it is can and/or will make the difference of if XP will even run on it.

 

If you aren't sure that the machine is compatible with XP:

Upgrading from Previous Versions of Windows

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/matrix.asp

 

or check here by typing in the hardware you want to check:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/compat.asp

 

Windows XP Professional Upgrade Center

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/default.mspx

 

Quick Upgrade to Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/getstarted/installquick.mspx

 

If you know it can handle XP, great, get a 98 DOS boot disk and reformat the drive.

Make sure you have the 98 install disk just in case issues do arise with some sort of

incompatibility.

You can get a boot disk here: http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

Please read Read1st in the right pane for instructions on how to create the boot

disk from the downloaded file.

 

--

 

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Conflicts start where information lacks.

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Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: Uninstalling Windows 98

 

"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message

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> "Lucia" <Lucia @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:2DAC4943-6DBC-4E28-89DF-D90587EC7A53@microsoft.com...

>>I got this computer used and dont know the owners, First of all. It has

>>Win

>> 98 installed on it, and I bought the Wind XP to upgrade it . When I went

>> to

>> do this it said it wont go over the Win98 program to uninstall. I cannot

>> find

>> uninstalling Win98 Anywhere on my computer. I've checked all obvious

>> places..

>> Can you Help?

>

> You don't need to know the owners, you need to know the product and it's

> worth. You mention it as a used machine with 98 installed and depending on

> how used (aged) it is can and/or will make the difference of if XP will

> even run on it.

>

> If you aren't sure that the machine is compatible with XP:

> Upgrading from Previous Versions of Windows

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/matrix.asp

>

> or check here by typing in the hardware you want to check:

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/compat.asp

>

> Windows XP Professional Upgrade Center

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/default.mspx

>

> Quick Upgrade to Windows XP

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/getstarted/installquick.mspx

>

> If you know it can handle XP, great, get a 98 DOS boot disk and reformat

> the drive.

 

 

The XP install CD (retail and generic OEM) has assets for partitioning, the

formatting is automatic. Wipe the drive and start new by removing the old

partition. Better to go NTFS right away, rather than converting after

seeing why later.

 

If an upgrade is done, no choice later but to convert if NTFS is desired.

 

--

Dave

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of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.

More profound is we made it to the top of the food

chain per our reasoning abilities.

Most profound is the denial of why we may

be on the way out.