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How to downgrade from winxp to win98se without floppy or boot disc?
I have an old Compaq Presario 5600i with around 300MB of available RAM,
which is ideal for running Win98, but not much else. I tried running WinXP on it but found it to be intolerably slow and want to downgrade to Win98 again. The problem is that the floppy drive has since died, so I can't make or use a Win98 startup floppy disk. The QuickRestore CDs that came with the system no longer seem to work (each disc I put in asks for "disc 1" and neither disc seems to think it is disc 1). I have a copy of Win98/WinME on an MSDN Universal Subscription disc, but unfortunately that disc, being part of the MSDN subscription set, is not bootable. Everything on it is in a subfolder called "English". When I open it in XP and try to run D:\English\SETUP.EXE, I get a message saying that the downgrade is not possible from WinXP. When I called Microsoft, they told me that they don't have a copy of a bootable ISO image and that I would have to "borrow it from a friend". I don't have any friends with an old copy of Win98. How do I install Win98 on this machine now? |
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How to downgrade from winxp to win98se without floppy or boot disc?
On 10 Nov 2006 20:27:22 -0800, "crwng" wrote:
I have an old Compaq Presario 5600i with around 300MB of available RAM, which is ideal for running Win98, but not much else. I tried running WinXP on it but found it to be intolerably slow and want to downgrade to Win98 again. The problem is that the floppy drive has since died, so I can't make or use a Win98 startup floppy disk. The QuickRestore CDs that came with the system no longer seem to work (each disc I put in asks for "disc 1" and neither disc seems to think it is disc 1). I have a copy of Win98/WinME on an MSDN Universal Subscription disc, but unfortunately that disc, being part of the MSDN subscription set, is not bootable. Everything on it is in a subfolder called "English". When I open it in XP and try to run D:\English\SETUP.EXE, I get a message saying that the downgrade is not possible from WinXP. When I called Microsoft, they told me that they don't have a copy of a bootable ISO image and that I would have to "borrow it from a friend". I don't have any friends with an old copy of Win98. How do I install Win98 on this machine now? I believe you can get a bootable ISO image with CDrom support from: www.bootdisk.com Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ |
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How to downgrade from winxp to win98se without floppy or boot disc?
Spend $6 for a floppy drive and put it in--usually four screws once you open
the case. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "crwng" wrote in message ups.com... I have an old Compaq Presario 5600i with around 300MB of available RAM, which is ideal for running Win98, but not much else. I tried running WinXP on it but found it to be intolerably slow and want to downgrade to Win98 again. The problem is that the floppy drive has since died, so I can't make or use a Win98 startup floppy disk. The QuickRestore CDs that came with the system no longer seem to work (each disc I put in asks for "disc 1" and neither disc seems to think it is disc 1). I have a copy of Win98/WinME on an MSDN Universal Subscription disc, but unfortunately that disc, being part of the MSDN subscription set, is not bootable. Everything on it is in a subfolder called "English". When I open it in XP and try to run D:\English\SETUP.EXE, I get a message saying that the downgrade is not possible from WinXP. When I called Microsoft, they told me that they don't have a copy of a bootable ISO image and that I would have to "borrow it from a friend". I don't have any friends with an old copy of Win98. How do I install Win98 on this machine now? |
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