I currently have the first Win98 installed on my machine. I obtained a Win98SE full version disk, however, when I go to install it, there is an error message saying I need to get the "upgrade" cd. Is there any way to get around this stupidity?

James

Stupidity... is not knowing the difference in a Windows 98SE upgrade cd and a full install version. Microsoft designed them that way so if you have a problem with how Microsoft designed their install cd's, complain to them or ask them how to defeat security they built into the install disks. Who knows..... they might have more than instructions for you. :)

I currently have the first Win98 installed on my machine. I obtained a Win98SE full version disk, however, when I go to install it, there is an error message saying I need to get the "upgrade" cd. Is there any way to get around this stupidity?

James

Hi James,

If you have the full install disk is there any reason why you cant do a clean install. I know it means alot of reinstall but it allows you to install win98se.

Luis

Hi James,

If you have the full install disk is there any reason why you cant do a clean install. I know it means alot of reinstall but it allows you to install win98se.

Luis
All u need to do is boot up to your command prompt.
In your windows dir there is a file called win.com
rename this file to win.old
Then boot up from your win 98 se cd and run the installation.
should work.

I currently have the first Win98 installed on my machine. I obtained a Win98SE full version disk, however, when I go to install it, there is an error message saying I need to get the "upgrade" cd. Is there any way to get around this stupidity?

James

Heres more stupidity, format your drive and install the SE disk. One better thing is to just upgrade with Windows XP Home or Pro. I'm sure you'd like it much better. I have noticed one thing with using Windows XP (Pro), it crashes alot less than Windows 98 or SE, but it does use about 350 MB of memory. I used to have to format my drive about every 8 months and reinstall everything when I used Windows SE. Very unstable program, but they have fixed that problem with XP.

MegaMD

Win 98 and SE are not unstable, they just lack system files protection against third party software installing their own system files, sometimes overwriting "yours"... which may be unstable.