[chrisblack]

I've been given an old pc with win98 installed (c drive).

On this machine I've also installed my old hard drive with win98SE (d drive).

Can I drop the contents of the windows folder on d: (se) into the folder on c: to upgrade to 98se???

I don't want to use d: as the main drive as this is only 3GB the c: is 20gb....

Thanks

Chris

[buletov]

you could try, but it's not recommended.

if you have two drives, backup your data on one and do the clean install. it will make your life easier. and just before you do, note your hardware in a device manager and write it down somewhere. to ease the drivers installation...

[jaclaz]

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you could try

... but it won't work.

Values in your "D:" registry will point to "D:" even after it is copied on "C:"!

Moreover, if you boot to "C:" and try to overwrite System files with the ones in "D:" you'll get file access error!

The "best" way is to reinstall 98 SE from scratch.

There are other ways, but frankly, they are much complex, and it simply it isn't worth the trouble.

jaclaz

[Mr. Spock]

as jaclaz said is best to start from scratch.
But i would recomand that you keep on using C:\ as your main drive and just use it for windows.
So in ever when in a case when a virus, you only have to install windows 98SE
that's my geuss though

[cancer10]

I think u should go for windows Mellinium

[Shun Di]

cancer10, on Sep 30 2004, 11:04 AM, said:

I think u should go  for windows Mellinium

*laughs*

[^_^]

He could just put his win98se drive in primary boot position, and it usually finds the new hardware OK.
Clean install is better, but maybe he doesn't know how