Actually I don't think getting the system to run on the 98 drive would be that hard, however it may well require a 98 disk. If you don't have that it might be questionable. The files would probably be downloadable somewhere, but you'd probably have to have a different computer available until you got this one back online again. Many people however copy the essential parts of the disk to the drive so they don't have to put it in ever time the OS asks for the disk though. It's been too long ago for me though to tell you the exact file names that you would look for. I think the folder would be named WIN98 and would have subfolders with compresed files with the names ending with a (_) mark after them. Before starting you would want to delete the contents of the INF folder. This will make the OS hunt for the drivers for your hardware and not have the wrong ones still in this folder. I remember when doing this I wound up with multiples of the same item in device manager. It would takes some fiddling, but it is doable, depending on how computer literate you are.
You would of course make this the master drive and your win 95 drive the slave. Or you could run it on the secondary IDE and still have it on the master settings with your cd rom etc as slaves. Some burners don't operate well as slaves however. You could not run the programs on your 95 disk from 98 though since the programs are not in the 98 registry. You'd have to physically switch each time or get a boot selector tool as was previously mentioned. Um, honestly the more I think about this though, I have to say it sounds like a lot of messing around for 98. Depending on how fast your system is, I'd sure consider win 2000. I've seen 2000 run half way decent on a 400 processer with 128 MB of ram. -----Original Message----- From: Sarbu Alexandru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Windows 98 help Hmmm... maybe you can just reinstall the OS? Boot from a win98 CD and choose to install in the same location - don't format the drive. Make that drive the primary master, to be sure it will be the C: drive on your system (you'll be able to use your old win95 drive as D:, but of course you can't boot from it) Good luck - you'll need it! <grin> Alex Sarbu --- Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > >What I'd like to know is whether swapping between > my old and this new > >Win98 drive somehow will give me trouble swapping > back to my present > >Win95 C:drive. (Like, will it work at all to get > the new Win98 > >running? Would this somehow change bios settings > (or cause other > >modifications) which will give me problems when > returning to my old > >(present) Win95 set up? > > My understanding, which is of course limited <g>, > would be that what > you describe is close to impossible. That is, if you > take a Win98 > bootable hard drive from random PC and put it into > another PC it most > probably won't boot. You might end up having to > reinstall much of the > components probably including the OS itself. > > Now, if you were to have bootable hard drive with > Win98 that you had > set up properly on your PC and along with it have > another one with > Win95 that was also properly set up, you could do > what you describe. > Furthermore, there are multi-boot managers so that > in fact, you > wouldn't even have to open the box and play with > jumper switches... > > Hope I did not increase your confusion. > > Boris > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
