Shane wrote:
Just to butt in on Rick's territory...


I never heard of a windows 9X OS that could be simply deleted, since they

need to

be installed, therefore it needs uninstallation, AFAIK. So he must have
uninstalled ME?



You can only uninstall an OS if it was an upgrade. So if you upgrade 98 to
ME, you can - if you kept the uninstallation data - uninstall ME and go back
to 98. But formatting is not uninstalling, except in the loosest sense. It's
closer to deleting. You format if you want to get back to a blank disk and
start again.

The exception is however - and something I've done a no. of times - booting
to DOS, whereupon you can delete the majority of the system, but leaving the
file system intact with a select few files/folders. For instance, with an OS
that insists on being installed as an upgrade only, you can install to an
otherwise clean drive containing a folder called Windows, containing only a
file called WIN.COM (and not even a real win.com, just a renamed text file
will do). If you don't want to do an upgrade (as I never do!) you can
nonetheless retain things such as the latest 9x NVidia driver setup files
and other folders unzipped-but-not-installed to C, shaving precious minutes
from the new install. You can install an OS intended only to be installed to
a clean drive (such as my Win 98SE), to an in-use one this way, renaming
Win.com so that the installer doesn't find it!

Shane


Thanks, Shane, I will save it for when I need it.

Do you post to the corresponding W98 ng?

MS