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Replacing XP with Win98SE (PII, 233Mhz)

by pekoe Jun 6, 2005 12:21PM PDT

I have purchased a Dell laptop with a PII, 233 Mhz, 64 MB RAM that has Win XP loaded. People have told me this is a ridiculous OS for this limited a machine, and recommend installing Win 98SE (I have the CD for this).

Can anyone lead me through the step-by-step of removing XP and installing Win 98SE? I plan on increasing the RAM soon as well.

Thanks,

Barry

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Win98 install

by Merl Priester Jun 6, 2005 2:05PM PDT

Do you have a floppy drive?

http://www.bootdisk.com/
get and make a win98se boot disk
Make sure it has FDISK and FORMAT on it.

Boot on it.
Run FDISK Delete all partitons, create primary DOS partition, REBOOT
Boot on Floppy again, run FORMAT C:
Reboot
Pull floppy and boot on Win98SE CD

Select Install Windows 98

After you are all done, you need to put on any mainboard drivers, device drivers etc, such as audio, video card, touchpad drivers etc.

By the way this is the XP forum, you might get more help on this on the 98 forum.

Or google how to install windows 98