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virtual alan
10-10-2005, 04:21 PM
Can anyone help

My gas powered PC only runs WIN98

Just bought a MP3 player for my daughters Xmas present.

But the lowest it runs is WIN98 2nd edition and above

Does anyone have a copy of this or ME,2000 going spare at all???

Mail me or PM me if can find a copy for a worthwhile charity :-)
madhatter256
10-10-2005, 04:43 PM
Wait till I get home... I'll pm ya if i can help.
virtual alan
10-10-2005, 04:56 PM
:smt023


Will pay postage...........
Taemos
10-10-2005, 05:07 PM
I'd help you out, but I lost my key. For some reason I thought it was a good idea to separate the manual and the disc.
virtual alan
10-10-2005, 05:23 PM
How many times do we hide / store something safe just in case only never to see it/them again :-(
the_steadster
10-10-2005, 05:35 PM
I might have an ME Upgrade floating around in return for a beer :drinkers:
dj898
10-10-2005, 05:53 PM
have you tried your local Sunday computer market if you have one?
I bought sealed box one for A$9.50 last year when I needed Win98SE...
virtual alan
10-11-2005, 03:23 AM
I might have an ME Upgrade floating around in return for a beer :drinkers:

Can be arranged :-)

:smt1062
Glitch
10-11-2005, 03:43 AM
I might have an ME Upgrade floating around in return for a beer :drinkers:
NOOO!!! not ME.
Worse OS ever!! get Windows 2000 Pro, fast and reliably for old computers.
Joe Sancho
10-11-2005, 04:19 AM
I have one original ME.
Please, let me know your complete name and address and I'll send it to you.
PhreQuencYViii
10-11-2005, 04:39 AM
My gas powered PC only runs WIN98

Gas powered PC?

Good god ME is awful...you should try to check out 2k if it's possible it would work on that pc, since it's more up to date. I bet you could find it (or 98 SE) somewhere......................................... .................;)
LeGIt
10-11-2005, 06:23 AM
Win 2k

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=11825390791&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=66480

Win 98 2nd Ed

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=11825460743&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=56617
kammedo
10-11-2005, 06:28 AM
Win 2k

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=11825390791&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=66480

Win 98 2nd Ed

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=11825460743&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=56617

Definitively go on Win2k..its worth it, and its quite fast even if your pc is being keeped in activity by mices ;)
Yakumo
10-11-2005, 06:45 AM
I have a Japanese version on Win98SE if you need a copy but the prpblem is that it's in Japanese. You can patch the outlook express and IE to English however to English.

Yakumo
the_steadster
10-11-2005, 09:33 AM
NOOO!!! not ME.
Worse OS ever!! get Windows 2000 Pro, fast and reliably for old computers.

Heh, You think I use it???


Virtual Alan: I'll have a hunt around for it...
virtual alan
10-11-2005, 09:46 AM
Many thanks to everyone for your kind offers/suggestions/links etc etc

Good old Mum has come up trumps!!!!!

She bought her PC not long after mine so has WIN98 2nd Edition :-)
MexicanGritzTaster
10-11-2005, 12:54 PM
Not that it matters much...

While Win2k is great for older machines, and while it may be appropriate in this situation, there have been a few times where an NT based windows simply wouldn't work. For instance, a lot of dev software only works on Win9x. This is because the operating system does little to keep the hardware from being accessed by the software.

So to lead off of that, while Windows ME blew at the time of release, I can't really blame it on the operating system. I recently set up a custom built Pentium 3 @ 800 mhz machine, with 512MB of ram, so I could do some development. It has 3 operating systems on it... Windows 95 OSR 2.5, Windows 98 SE, and Windows ME.

Comparing them all, Windows 95 is frickin light speed. It may look plain compared to todays offerings, but man, it flies.... right into a blue screen about every hour or so.

Windows 98 SE is what we all have come to love and expect.

Now I never REALLY used Windows ME outside of some minor administration and testing, until recently. It REALLY is faster than Windows 98. No. Really. I click the start menu, and it immediately brings up the start menu. Windows 98 has a noticable 1/2 second delay. Opening up my computer on ME is instantanious, where on Win98, it generally lags a few seconds, especially if there is a cd in the drive. I noticed these things with about 2 seconds of observation (and still ongoing). These are only a few examples.

I've been trying to come up with a reason that ME seemed to suck so bad back when it was released. Looking at two of the machines that came prepackaged with WinME, I think the OEMs that pushed this OS have a lot of the blame. It tends to be sub-par hardware with questionable configurations.

Anyway, thats was a nice little break. Now back to work
madhatter256
10-11-2005, 02:06 PM
Crap dude, I totally forgot about this when I got home lol. Its a copy of a legit copy, not a warez copy.
virtual alan
10-11-2005, 02:39 PM
Now I have the following problem

I need to know how to uninitall WIN 98 and install WIN98 2nd Edition???
Tachikoma
10-11-2005, 02:52 PM
I think you just install it on the top of Win98
virtual alan
10-11-2005, 03:33 PM
Won`t take as an overwrite :-(

Want`s upgrade..........so presume willm have to uninstall and install WIN98SE

Don`t know if you want to move this to off topic with new header?
madhatter256
10-11-2005, 04:07 PM
Now I have the following problem

I need to know how to uninitall WIN 98 and install WIN98 2nd Edition???

It will upgrade, not overwrite.
virtual alan
10-11-2005, 05:06 PM
I get the following response

"Your computer already has an operating system installed, which can not be upgraded by this version of SETUP. You need to obtain the Windows 98 Upgrade"


Message SU0618

:confused:
the_steadster
10-11-2005, 05:11 PM
Are you booting to the windows 98 Cd from Bios?

You need to boot from your hard disk, and then run the installer
virtual alan
10-11-2005, 05:22 PM
Just running from when cd inserted it autoruns

How would I run it from BIOS?
MexicanGritzTaster
10-12-2005, 08:30 AM
Heh... How quickly people forget.

The reason you can't install it is because Microsoft, for all versions of Win9x, had three versions... Upgrade, OEM, and Full.

Upgrade only allows you to upgrade.

OEM only allows you to make a fresh install (After all, if your an OEM, you aren't upgrading anything. [This is your case])

Full allows you to do anything in terms of install.
MexicanGritzTaster
10-12-2005, 08:32 AM
Forgot to add:

Get this: http://www.troyedwards.com/downloads/BootDisks/boot98.exe

Boot your machine. Type two commands:

fdisk /mbr
format /q c:

And thats it. You can now install your windows.
virtual alan
10-12-2005, 08:44 AM
Forgot to add:

Get this: http://www.troyedwards.com/downloads/BootDisks/boot98.exe

Boot your machine. Type two commands:

fdisk /mbr
format /q c:

And thats it. You can now install your windows.

Would I have to do this from the DOS screen?

If so how do I get to that again?
MexicanGritzTaster
10-12-2005, 04:08 PM
Yes, from DOS. The link I posted is a DOS boot disk. Simply put a diskette into your floppy drive, run the exe from the link (which will "write DOS" to the disk), and reboot with the floppy in the drive. As long as you didnt somehow make the bios skip booting from the floppy drive, thats all you will need to do to get a DOS environemnt.
the_steadster
10-12-2005, 04:45 PM
That will erase your disk though. You could probably save your data by just doing deltree C:\windows. However this wouldn't retain software installs, you would have to reinstall software no matter what, unless you can find a way to upgrade rather than format +reinstall