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[DJ Elemental]

my friend installed win XP over 98 but now whats to install back to 98.

 

i heard that going from WinXP to windows 98 is difficult? is this true? and how do you go about installing 98 over XP.

 

he formats his HD it gets to 100% then seems to stop - any ideas?

[Guest]

hmmmm...........:scratchtch:

[Mr Happy]

erm - if he's reformatting his HDD then he'll ahve to make sure his reformatting it as FAT32 (windows 98 filesystem) not NTFS (which XP prefers)

[DJ Elemental]

Mr_Happy said:

erm - if he's reformatting his HDD then he'll ahve to make sure his reformatting it as FAT32 (windows 98 filesystem) not NTFS (which XP prefers)

 

cheers matey, i'll still him to try that

[Bukey]

Why would he want to go back to 98 anyways???? And why did he do an upgrade?

 

Unless his PC really isn't up to running XP, he should do a fresh installation of XP, and format during setup.

 

Hope that helps!

[Mr Happy]

Bukey said:

Why would he want to go back to 98 anyways???? And why did he do an upgrade?

 

Unless his PC really isn't up to running XP, he should do a fresh installation of XP, and format during setup.

 

Hope that helps!

 

id rather run 98 over XP

[Magicman]

XP is bollocks

[Mr Happy]

personally i run win2000 along side win95 (which boots in litrally 5 seconds!!!)

[Wonky]

 

xp is good

 

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[Capn Jack]

With XP I have a stable and recoverable OS, none of the other Microsoft efforts have afforded me such luxuries.

 

Although I would recomend installing XP on a freshly formated HDD.

[Mr Happy]

Capn_Jack said:

With XP I have a stable and recoverable OS, none of the other Microsoft efforts have afforded me such luxuries.

 

XP is built on NT technology. ALL of microsofts NT systems are stable (by microsofts standards) because they were build in partnership with OS2 (forget the company behind that operating system)

 

going back even further - MS-DOS is stable, but then that wasnt programmed by miscrosoft either, just braught out by em.

 

but ne way - my point still stands

Edited September 30, 2003 by Mr_Happy

[DJ Elemental]

he wants to downgrade to 98 again because his modem wont work on XP or something - it cannoy find the drives - i have the same problem with my studio computer - so i was lazy and shared the net connection from this computer via the network.

 

is there away of getting his modem to work, rather than him degrading down to 98?

[Maria]

Just tell him to buy a new [censored] computer.

 

W98 ready.