Using Windows 98 on a recently manufactured machine

I have been using an old Pentium 2 machine with Win 98 SE for years.I
am very attached to it.I go more than 24 hours without rebooting
usually.I have an enormous number of macros and odd little apps and
things that could not readily be moved to XP. I have moved my HD or a
HD with a Ghost image of my original HD to other PCs of the P2 or P3
generation.With the Windows 98 SE CD and CDs for modems and NICs etc.
I have had no trouble simply moving the HD from one machine to
another.

I'd like to get a new laptop like an IBM Thinkpad.I'm told I couldn't
get Windows 98 or an image of my HD to run on these machines.They give
a lot of reasons,but the only one that makes sense to me is that there
would be no Windows 98 drivers for certain hardware available
anywhere.

I'm wondering if anyone has had any experiences with this and if there
are any workarounds if you really want a legacy OS that's no longer
supported by hardware maunfacturers or MS on a new computer.

For example are there any little cult like websites where people who
are Win 98 fans (like Linux fans)have written drivers for new
hardware,or list which new machines are Win 98 friendly? Could you
count on being able to boot win98 without NIC and sound cards etc.
support at least to a safe mode like level.Then maybe you could
install older components as necessary.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Well im not an expert, but IM SURE your first problem would be the HD format.
XP uses a fool-proof NTFS format. WHICH does nothing for un-networked users,
its a safety format for multi-user environment. GAMES, DOS-based, all those
little apps you love(exactly like me, got maybe 150 1.44 meg floppies still
treasured by me) will freeze when it cant use a FAT32 (win98) or fat16 (dos or
win311) format.

So the key is to find your machine setup with the xp completely so you dont
have to change it at all. BUT
the machine MUST be ready to accept a second HD to be plugged in and used.

IF you get that far, Make sure you get to format it yourself (or predone in
FAT32). Thats the FDISK command which operated from DOS, WHICH means you
would boot from a dos622 floppy and fdisk only the new HD (after the bios rec.
it of course) to fat32. after, is suggest using SYS to transfer dos622 to the
fat32, you will can upgrade to win98 later, the most important thing is getting
into the new HD through DOS, not XP(clicking the icon).

I HAVE MANY OTHER LITTLE TRICKs to help if this is helpfull email me direct and
I can explain more about what I know (claiming i am not a pro, i just resolved
so many of my own problems)

if you reply post and EMAIL plz

(the dual-boot would be what i explain next
AND
(that in win98, it cant "see" the NTFS, therefore, win98 must be C: drive)

BUDDY, hope you reply, before you just slap it together,,, been there,,,,, done
that

ron

"J M 8941" wrote in message
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Well im not an expert, but IM SURE your first problem would be the HD
format.
XP uses a fool-proof NTFS format. WHICH does nothing for un-networked
users,
its a safety format for multi-user environment. GAMES, DOS-based, all
those
little apps you love(exactly like me, got maybe 150 1.44 meg floppies
still
treasured by me) will freeze when it cant use a FAT32 (win98) or fat16
(dos or
win311) format.

So the key is to find your machine setup with the xp completely so you
dont
have to change it at all. BUT
the machine MUST be ready to accept a second HD to be plugged in and used.

IF you get that far, Make sure you get to format it yourself (or predone
in
FAT32). Thats the FDISK command which operated from DOS, WHICH means you
would boot from a dos622 floppy and fdisk only the new HD (after the bios
rec.
it of course) to fat32. after, is suggest using SYS to transfer dos622 to
the
fat32, you will can upgrade to win98 later, the most important thing is
getting
into the new HD through DOS, not XP(clicking the icon).

I HAVE MANY OTHER LITTLE TRICKs to help if this is helpfull email me
direct and
I can explain more about what I know (claiming i am not a pro, i just
resolved
so many of my own problems)

if you reply post and EMAIL plz

(the dual-boot would be what i explain next
AND
(that in win98, it cant "see" the NTFS, therefore, win98 must be C: drive)

BUDDY, hope you reply, before you just slap it together,,, been there,,,,,
done
that

ron

you can use FAT32 with XP ...it gives you a choice