upgrade win95 to win98se

[Tiszy]

OKay, maybe you all can help me. I have an old pentium I 266mHz with 96 MB Ram. It is a NEC. I have windows 95 installed and it works great. It actually works very fast on DSL. I want to upgrade to windows 98 SE, have cd-rom. I have international students who live with me and I don't want them to use my dell inspirion 8100 because they think they can just download and change my bios and do what they want. I had to reformat it and reinstall everything. So....I have this old pc I am willing to let them use. This is my problem.

I reformatted it and downloaded a windows 98 SE boot disk. It works great, then I click with CD rom support and put in the 98 CDrom. It works fine. I put in my 25 digit product key, it then ask me to verify that I have had another windows on the computer, so I insert my windows 95 companion cd and it reads it and then says ok and to put back in my 98 cd to finish the install. Then it starts copying the files to the computer. When it gets to about 27% it says to take the disk out and clean it with a cloth. I do and it won't work. Someone told me it is not reading the cab files. I noticed the cd is all scratched. I have buffed it and tried everything. Then I tried to reinstall the windows 95, move the cabs to a folder of to just 95. Copy the win98 SE to a file in a folder to 98 and install from there from dos. (C:\windows\options\cabs. Then move 98. It starts to do it and starts copying the files and again stops at 27%. So I am guessing the CD is really scratched and just won't work.

Is there anything I am doing wrong? Is there anything I can do? I hate to spend money on a new 98 cd since I have one. I have 2 computers in the house that have windows 98. One doesn't have any disk with it. Then my sister gave me her old computer, which she didn't keep any of her programs with it. So I called NEC and ask them for a recovery CD. They referred me to a company and they sent me one for $29.95. I put the CD in and it reinstalled all of the programs, including windows 98. Although, this a NEC, it is a celeron. The windows 95 computer I am trying to upgrade is also a NEC, however it is a pentium I. I have the recovery disk for it as well, but I can't take the NEC win98 recovery disk and put it on the NEC win95 computer. The disk won't work. So, I am trying to do a clean install with my 98SE CD-rom that I have and it must be scratched up so bad that it can't copy all the files.

If anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. I would keep the 95 on the computer, however they have to have 98 so they can change use programs to convert to Korean. Windows 95 will not do this. I have tried everything and am getting very frustrated, but I know I can do this. I am not that computer savy, but I can follow directions really well, if someone is patient with me.

Thanking everyone in advance.

Teresa

[jasinwa]

first, you should have checked placed like ebay for a 98SE full install version - probably a lot cheaper than that dribble you purchased for 30 bucks!

There are some freeware programs that can copy bad disks/cd's, etc...I'll see if I can't find one or 2 to post here for ya.

Here's a few on this page by Roadkil...try unstoppable copier

Copy Proggies

CD Check

Jeff

[Tiszy]

The recovery disc I bought was for the NEC Windows 98, which was $29.95 worked fine and the computer is up and running. The other computer is also a NEC, but with win95. I can't use the NEC Recovery Win98 disc to upgrade from 95 to 98. However, I did move the cab files from C:\windows\options\cabs to a folder c:\95. Then I made another folder C:\98 and copied all the files from win98 to the folder. I then did smartdrive, move\command, then deltree, md/cd windows, ""options, ""cabs, and then move \98\*.* .

After all was moved, I then c:\setup and then I did a full install of windows 98. After all was done and windows 98 was completely installed I deleted the folder 95 and 98.

Thank you all for the information of unstoppable copier and CD Check. I will use it in the future.

Teresa