Computer will not run Windows 98 disk

[Amats]

yep mine is 98 upgrade not se

[patio]

Do you have a floppy drive ? ?
If so travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad and extract the Win98SE file to a clean floppy...
Boot to the floppy with your Win CD in and at the A: prompt type setup and hit Enter...
The install will start.

[Amats]

Do you have a floppy drive ? ?
If so travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad and extract the Win98SE file to a clean floppy...
Boot to the floppy with your Win CD in and at the A: prompt type setup and hit Enter...
The install will start.

That was a slick idea and it worked perfectly!   The only flaw was my strategy to use the full version of XP prof for verification that I had a full version of windows which did not work at all.   I suppose there is no way to get around buying a full version of 98?

[Fed]

If you're going to pay money for it you should get Windows 2000, it's better than 98 & XP and it doesn't have any Msoft validation hoops to jump through.
You probably know someone who has an unused copy for free, ask around.

[Amats]

Ya I was kind of shocked when I shopped around online and saw 98 going for $60

[Fed]

$60 is crazy IMO 98 has no worth at all now.

Before you install the Windows 2000 Professional desktop operating system, make sure that your computer meets the following minimum system requirements:
133 MHz or more Pentium microprocessor (or equivalent). Windows 2000 Professional supports up to two processors on a single computer.
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum. 32 MB of RAM is the minimum supported. 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM is the maximum.
A 2 GB hard disk that has 650 MB of free space. If you are installing over a network, more free hard disk space is required.
VGA or higher-resolution monitor.
Keyboard.
Mouse or compatible pointing device (optional)

Straight from the Mothership.

[Cityscape]

If you're going to pay money for it you should get Windows 2000, it's better than 98 & XP and it doesn't have any Msoft validation hoops to jump through.
You probably know someone who has an unused copy for free, ask around.

Yes definitely use 2000 or Linux (I prefer Ubuntu). Windows 2000 costs about $1000 new which is a bit less then XP. So getting it used would be smartest.

[patio]

Excuse me ? ? ?
Win2K = $1000 dollars ? ? ? ?

[BC_Programmer]

heh, he probably means 100 dollars... otherwise it wouldn't be less then XP


Either that, or he really sucks at math...

[Fed]

Excuse me ? ? ?
Win2K = $1000 dollars ? ? ? ?

I told you it was good.

[Cityscape]

Excuse me ? ? ?
Win2K = $1000 dollars ? ? ? ?

Typo, I meant $100 dollars. And XP normally sells for $20 more than 2K.