Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

[Boomyal]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

Ok, I ran the SFC, it showed a problem with the setupx.dll, I told it to do whatever it needed to do but it never went to the cd to retrieve the file. I ran the sfc again and it did not come up with a problem.<br /><br />Interesting note, It appears I now have two versions of windows loaded on the harddrive. Looking in Explore, there is Windows and Windows.000 and the harddrive is half full.????<br /><br />I'm beginning to think that this all was not a good Idea. It appears that it didn't upgrade but just loaded another version.

 

[spratt]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

Originally posted by Mark42:<br /> From my experience, all windows upgrade and full version are the same disk. The price is different because they are giving you a break if you already have windows. I have always installed a virgin PC from an upgrade disk.<br /><br />It SHOULD do the upgrade and leave your applications alone, but a backup would be a wise move first.

The difference is the disc's ability to BOOT or not...An UPGRADE CD will not Boot, but must be run from an already booted PC (wheteher using a bootable floppy or teh present loaded hard drive...a full install will boot and run on "Normally" a formatted clean PC...but it doesn't ahve to be clean or formatted...just usually a tech shop will have a new PC and must get an OS on it, so either a Full Install or OEM CD...

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

It is definite that I simply loaded a second operating system. Windows and Windows.000. I did it by booting from a boot disc, then telling it to run using CD support. Maybe I should have let it run by letting it autoload from windows.<br /><br />I think I will 'restore' the original 98 and then try it that way.

 

[Rudderman]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

I did a similar thing with my own laptop last year, I had two Operating systems in Windows and Windows.000. I had to reinstall all my device drivers. I used another pc to download all the required drivers, I burned them onto a cd and then put the cd in the laptop and installed everything from there.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

I'm all well on this count, rudderman. I was able to blow out windows.ooo and with some expert help, redirect DOS to see the original windows 98. It was all still there, with all the laptop drivers, etc.<br /><br />I was, then, able to get my hands on an actual 98SE Upgrade copy, which went without a hitch. I then downloaded all the necessary USB drivers, which would not work under 98 and I'm off and running.<br /><br />Being able to retrieve the original OS, with all of it's drivers and downloaded programs, etc, sure saved me a lot of hassle.

 

[ae708]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

Just upgrade to XP and let it install the drivers you need. Why fool around with 95/98 anymore?

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Solicitation to beg, steal or buy**UPDATE**

Originally posted by ae708:<br /> Just upgrade to XP and let it install the drivers you need. Why fool around with 95/98 anymore?

'cause it is only a 366 mhz celeron with 192 mb ram and a 4 ghz HD. I think XP would overwhelm it. Besides, the only improvement I really needed was 98SE's USB capabilities.