re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3936 messages posted) zeron wrote: |what is a vintage hardware | http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=vintage(#6) Hardware that was built in 1998-1999 probably *won't* have device drivers available for a M$ OS[1] produced AFTER that. |by clean install do you mean format everything? and then install? | If your Windoze install is screwed up, it could well be due to an infection.[2] Not only should you FORMAT the disk, you should also FDISK the partition to clean out any boot sector viruses. ...and questions about XP belong in the XP forum. [1] OTOH, FREE Linux **loves** old hardware. [2] Linux isn't susceptible to infections the way Micros~1 crap is either. Written in response to: re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (zeron: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 5:20 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (zeron: Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 1:22 pm) re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (Steve: Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 4:28 pm) re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (zeron: Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 5:20 pm) re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (Steve: Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 5:38 pm) re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (zeron: Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 6:50 am) re: a broken windows 98 to XP.possible? (gewg_: Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 5:49 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum