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| Thread ID: 30416 | 2003-02-18 22:29:00 | Upgrading Win98 to Win98se | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 122313 | 2003-02-18 22:29:00 | OK, I have two computers on my desk and one runs Win98 & the other Win98 Second Edition. I also have both the original installation disks. I wish to upgrade the Win98 machine to Win98SE. Now, simply running the Win98SE disk produces a message that you can’t use an original installation disk to upgrade, you must purchase an upgrade disk! Somewhere, somewhere, in my personal RAM, I seem to recall reading or hearing that this was nonsense, and there was a quite simple workaround. From memory it simply involved deleting a couple of files? Can anyone help? Bob |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 122314 | 2003-02-18 22:42:00 | www.experts-exchange.com Read the above link and see if that gives you want you want. |
Gordon. (2217) | ||
| 122315 | 2003-02-19 00:34:00 | Thanks Gordon, That is a slightly different method to the one I’m trying to recall. From memory, one didn’t go near DOS on the method I’m trying to recall. My understanding is there is a file designed especially to stop upgrading from the new installation disk. Once this file is deleted everything carries on normal.?? Bob |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 122316 | 2003-02-19 01:17:00 | www.computing.net In that case this is probably what you are thinking of. |
Gordon. (2217) | ||
| 122317 | 2003-02-19 02:55:00 | You need to delete 2 files under DOS. They are win.com & winver.exe. Just rename then as wincom.old & winverexe.old, Then run setup.exe. It will try putting it in a folder called C:\windows.000 so you need to backspace out the ".000" Worked on mine. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 122318 | 2003-02-19 03:01:00 | Yes Gordon, sounds similar but I don’t recall win.com being the file concerned. I wonder if this method updates all the drivers or just replaces win.com? The other concern I have is that windows will let me rename win.com whilst windows is open? I’d better start backing up before attach! |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 122319 | 2003-02-19 03:08:00 | Our posts crossed Peter. Looks like Win.com has to go! I figured we may have to operate from DOS. Better start backing up eh? ;) Bob |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 122320 | 2003-02-19 03:08:00 | Of course, doing anything like that, boot to DOS. Windows tries to stop you from chainsawing the branch you are sitting on. It likes to sabotage things itself. :D But some full versions have a nasty habit of formatting the partition. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 122321 | 2003-02-19 07:55:00 | When I tried the upgrade over existing OS it gave me more grief than relief. I booted using boot disk and selecting cd rom support then reformatted using Format c:/u/s command. Select cdr drive ( poss E: ) and ran setup.. Although it is an upgrade disk it will still give you a compleate clean install.. Once I had everything in place I ran Regclean and then scandisk several times.. Never had a problem. My new computer had Win me pre installed and I am on the verge of scrapping it and going back to 98se |
johnd01 (2165) | ||
| 122322 | 2003-02-19 20:26:00 | If I’m reading things correctly John01 you used an upgrade disk to do a full installation and reformatted your disk. In my case I’m the reverse, where I have the original disk and want to upgrade from it. Now, I don’t want to reformat. (I want to be a lazy bugger and back up very important information but take a punt on the rest of it.) Obviously, if I were prepared to reformat it would be a simple matter to just install Win98se from the disk. I think I may sit tight for the moment and consider bludgeing an upgrade disk from somewhere. ;\ |
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