Author: Pete Galati
Date: 15:59:49 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 18:27:47, Mike S. wrote: >On March 25, 2001 at 18:02:13, Pete Galati wrote: > >>(...) >>When I got this computer, I started asking around to see if I could use my Win98 >>upgrade CD to downgrade ME into 98, but everyone's telling me that's not a >>posibility. > >Very likely, because Microsoft has the strangest limitations in this respect: >Recently, my Win98 on my other old computer totally crashed (after a change of >the graphics card). I had to reinstall Windows. > >I have a Windows 98 update CD from the installation which crashed, and a full >version of Win98 Second Edition from another computer which doesn't work anymore >because of mainboard failure. So I thought, I have to reinstall anyway, why not >use the Win98SE to have the more recent OS. > >But what happens? The Win98 SE tells me, I can't install from the Win98SE CD >version - I should buy an *update version* instead!! Have you ever heard such a >ridiculous story? I have a full version, but I am *punished* because some older >Microsoft OS was installed previously on my computer, so cannot just install >new, and must update. Of course, I cannot update with the full version CD. > >Finally, I reinstalled Windwos98 (first version) with the update CD again. > >Probably I could have solved this by completely formatting the C:\ drive, which >I couldn't, because I have many installations of DOS chess programs on it, some >with a limited number of installations available... > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Don't it drive you nuts? One of the things that prevented me from just formatting the drive and starting over again with Win98, was that within a short period of time I had a lot of stuff in there allready, and I allready had Netscape all configured, and the same with the IP configuration stuff, and I didn't feel like starting all over again from scratch, besides it would require me to locate all sorts of drivers first. Pete
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