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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows 3.x/9x/ME => Topic started by: AndreiB on October 16, 2005, 05:38:45 AM

Title: Win 98 vs Win XP
Post by: AndreiB on October 16, 2005, 05:38:45 AM

I can't install Windows 98 on my new computer!-erros when I want to acces all applications and other things- If I install XP it works very good. Please explain this to me! I don't use them both!
My computer: AMD Sempron 2600 , nVIDIA GeForce FX5200,256 MB RAM, 40GB.

Title: Re: Win 98 vs Win XP
Post by: Mac on October 16, 2005, 07:15:37 AM

To dual boot '98 and XP you should install '98 on its own partition first and then install XP on a different partition.

To run them both you need 512 MB of RAM but more than 512 MB of RAM is difficult for '98 without altering the Vcache settings, so you would be better off just using XP and fitting more RAM in the computer.

Title: Re: Win 98 vs Win XP
Post by: AndreiB on November 20, 2005, 04:56:59 AM

Maybe my motherboard can't support win 98.

Title: Re: Win 98 vs Win XP
Post by: patio on November 20, 2005, 06:34:08 AM

You need to visit the MBoard manuf. site and grab the drivers for Win98...

Chances are your other components will need Win98 drivers as well.

patio.  8)

Title: Win 98 vs Win XP
Post by: Mac on November 20, 2005, 06:48:03 AM

XP has a lot more drivers included in the OS. With '98 you may need to add drivers manually.

I would up the RAM to 512 MB, or more, and only use XP.

What are the rest of the hardware specifications like, drive speed partitioning, drive buffer, foramtting?

Was the drive partitioned with diskpart and formatted with the XP CDto HPFS/NTFS or was fdisk and format to FAT32 used?

Do you only use FULL formatting when preparing a drive? Quick formatting is only good for deleteing files really.

Title: Re: Win 98 vs Win XP
Post by: Raptor on November 20, 2005, 07:37:40 AM

As long as it is a X86 (Intel/AMD) family processor it should be supported..