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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 698322 | 2008-08-18 04:18:00 | I have Toshiba laptop around 2001 vintage I bought it from tm about 5 years ago. Only been used a few times a year It has an illegal copy of windows xp on it. Its so slow with xp and computer so old its not worth buying xp new. I would shout the bar if it has more than 64 mb of ram I wonder if I could put w98se on it. How do you a backwards os install? Is it possible for it be home networked if it has different os to other computers? Thanks |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 698323 | 2008-08-18 04:23:00 | You can network any OS you want, it'll work You can install any OS you like on it. Just as long as there's drivers for it Otherwise, you wont have sound, or be able to network You'll have to reformat the hdd, to install whatever OS on it Just remember updates are no longer available for 98 or 98 SE. But you should be able to download the updates that were available From the MS site |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 698324 | 2008-08-18 06:00:00 | Who makes the "unofficial" Win98 Service packs then? | Blam (54) | ||
| 698325 | 2008-08-18 06:01:00 | Pass do a search in google | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 698326 | 2008-08-18 09:57:00 | I think I have a show stopper The floppy drive is buggered a bunch of springs and bits fell out when i pulled a disk out. From memory I dont think you can boot from 98 cd need floppy disks. If I cant run 98 I will junk the laptop xp makes it too slow. It has a usb port is there a work around to get format hd and instal 98 without a floppy disk Thanks for any help I now have to sort my computers out geek mate done a runner |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 698327 | 2008-08-18 10:03:00 | Bring it to Mt Eden, I'll have it :D You could probably fit 98 on a USB flash drive. If the laptop supports booting from one. Only thing you can do is buy a external USB floppy It does have a cd tho doesnt it? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 698328 | 2008-08-18 10:05:00 | yep it has cd drive | prefect (6291) | ||
| 698329 | 2008-08-18 10:11:00 | Cant see why you cant copy the 98 files from the cd to another and somehow make it bootable. ie: Like this (ntcompatible.com) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 698330 | 2008-08-18 10:18:00 | All Windows 98 CDs are bootable. The only reason they has W98 Boot floppies is because some CD drives of the time did not support booting from CDs. You could also try Windows 2000 Professional on it. Same codebase as Windows XP, but with only slightly higher system req's than 98. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 698331 | 2008-08-18 10:28:00 | I cant remember 98 being on floppy, I know 95 came on floppy I've still got the original 95, and 3.11 floppies ! |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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