Any CD labelled "for distribution with a new PC only" is a
OEM CD which can only be installed on a clean hard drive
with no windows on it already. It wont upgrade. To keep
your current setting and programs you would need either a
Full Retail Win98SE CD or a Win98SE Upgrade CD both of
which are getting very hard to find these days but you can
luck out at either EBay or a large online computer store.
Also when upgrading a older ThinkPad much sure you go to
the downloads section at the IBM site and get the lastest
drivers and the lastest bios updates for your ThinkPad
model.


-----Original Message-----
A few years ago I bought a used IBM Thinkpad.
It has W98 and several other programs, like Office,
that I want to retain. I want to upgrade to W98se so
that I can use a wireless card with the system. I
recently bought a W98se disc labelled 'for distribu-
tion with a new PC only". What, if any, is the way
to move to W98se and at the same time save the 2-3
other programs that I want to keep? MK


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