Reinstalling upgrade

I have an old computer with win 95 on it. I upgraded to 98, then let it get
updates from MS. It would not boot, so i did fdisk and format, now I can't
reinstall 98 without proof of 85, and I don't have the disk. Help!!

I wonder if it can be fooled like the old w95 upgrades. There were a
few known ways to do it but this one might work??? Easy to try anyway.

Create a Notepad file and type in some random characters, it don't
matter, save it as win386.exe . Put this file in the root folder of
your formated drive (save it on a diskette and when in DOS copy it to
C:\) Now try updating. No saying it's gonna work but no harm trying.
Let us know if it works, I'm curious...

John


David M. wrote:

I have an old computer with win 95 on it. I upgraded to 98, then let it get
updates from MS. It would not boot, so i did fdisk and format, now I can't
reinstall 98 without proof of 85, and I don't have the disk. Help!!

No go, but thanks.

"John John" wrote:

I wonder if it can be fooled like the old w95 upgrades. There were a
few known ways to do it but this one might work??? Easy to try anyway.

Create a Notepad file and type in some random characters, it don't
matter, save it as win386.exe . Put this file in the root folder of
your formated drive (save it on a diskette and when in DOS copy it to
C:\) Now try updating. No saying it's gonna work but no harm trying.
Let us know if it works, I'm curious...

John


David M. wrote:

I have an old computer with win 95 on it. I upgraded to 98, then let it get
updates from MS. It would not boot, so i did fdisk and format, now I can't
reinstall 98 without proof of 85, and I don't have the disk. Help!!

Kind of thought that MS would have caught on to that very quickly! Oh
well, probably is a way to fool it but I don't know how. Time to spend
$10 on ebay for w95...

John

David M. wrote:

No go, but thanks.

"John John" wrote:


I wonder if it can be fooled like the old w95 upgrades. There were a
few known ways to do it but this one might work??? Easy to try anyway.

Create a Notepad file and type in some random characters, it don't
matter, save it as win386.exe . Put this file in the root folder of
your formated drive (save it on a diskette and when in DOS copy it to
C:\) Now try updating. No saying it's gonna work but no harm trying.
Let us know if it works, I'm curious...

John


David M. wrote:


I have an old computer with win 95 on it. I upgraded to 98, then let it get
updates from MS. It would not boot, so i did fdisk and format, now I can't
reinstall 98 without proof of 85, and I don't have the disk. Help!!