HELP ME WITH WINDOWS 98 |
 Jul 28 2004, 12:48 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Cb's Emotional Writer  Group: Member Posts: 166 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 33,300  |
hey wuts up. i normaly instal windows just fine, anyways, this church guy brung me his computer, cuz someone just gave it to him, its an old computer, he doesnt even know what it has, anyways i turned it on and i think it has a version of windows nt, either way, i still put the windows 98 starup disk, on the comp, and i chose start with cd rom support, but then eventually it says that it cant, cuz maybe the harddrive is running on some partition software, or that I have to make it fat32 or something, etc, like how do i go about just instaling windows 98 on it?
|
|
|
|
 |
Replies
|
Jul 30 2004, 04:08 AM
Post
#2
|
|
 Junior Member Group: Member Posts: 457 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,537 |
since the computer has windows NT, the drive probably has an NFTS partition. windows 98 can't be installed on an NFTS partition. you'll have to repartition the drive to FAT32 using the appropriate software and then you can install windows 98.
|
|
|
|
Posts in this topic
grapplefan HELP ME WITH WINDOWS 98 Jul 28 2004, 12:48 PM
Levy2k6 98???? just go and install WINDOWS XP! its onl... Jul 29 2004, 11:16 AM grapplefan its not my computer :( Jul 29 2004, 11:18 AM Levy2k6 well tell him that u can upgrade for a couple ... Jul 29 2004, 11:19 AM highly_evolved tell him to get a mac it will end up being cheaper... Jul 30 2004, 07:32 AM Levy2k6 QUOTE(ryan_73 @ Jul 30 2004, 4:08 AM)since th... Jul 30 2004, 08:26 AM MasterNe0 try www.techguy.org , maybe they can help you.
Ju... Jul 30 2004, 03:07 PM
tofumonzter make another boot disk. the boot disk might be cor... Jul 30 2004, 04:44 PM |
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members: