Your post is very hard to understand due to the syntax of your sentences, but what I
get from it is that you have a computer that has or had Win98 on it, you installed
XP (you don't say if it is an upgrade or installed as a dual boot), and that you are
not going to activate XP, and want to put 98 on it again. Is that correct?

If so, just use a boot disk to fdisk and format, then do a fresh install of 98 from
your 98 CD. You can't use the XP installation once the time period is up and it
asks for activation anyway.

Why couldn't you make a 98 startup disk? You can make one on any Win98 computer
through Control Panel Add\Remove Programs StartUp Disk tab.

You can make a Win98 startup disk in any computer if you have a retail Win98 CD, by
opening the \tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd folder on the CD and double-clicking
fat32ebd.exe

You can also get a bootdisk maker program for Win98 from he
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"rc" rc@home wrote in message ...
want to reinstall windows 98 on computer currently running xp (used disk from my
other computer....not going to activate it. needed it to boot up other
computer.....couldn't make start up disk for win 98. ) Now that computer has o/s
want to put win98 on it. Whats the best way to go about it. Thanks