re: Re-install Windows 98 on computer not connected to internet?
Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 10:08 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(741 messages posted)
You can get the drivers from your existing hard disk.
The easiest - and safest! - way for you to reinstall Windows 98 is to boot into DOS
and rename your directory C:\Windows as C:\WinOLD
Then carry out a new installation of Windows 98 using an UPGRADE version of Windows
98. The upgrade version does NOT wipe your entire hard disk, but only overwrites
the directory C:\Windows
(To use an upgrade version of Win98SE, you need the CD or floppy disks from an older
version of Windows, to put in the drive for checking, when you are asked for them
by the upgrade program.)
I'm not sure that a *full* install version of Windows 98SE will wipe the hard disk:
I'm almost sure that I once had to do a reinstall with one - about ten years ago
- and all that was overwritten was the C:\WINDOWS directory.
By preserving your original Windows directory as C:\WinOLD you are keeping (temporarily)
all the existing driver files. When you reinstall Windows 98 into C:\Windows and
it asks you to supply the driver files it needs, you will still have them on hand
(in C:\WinOLD).
Ed
On Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 12:02 am, Carlos wrote:
>If I don't have the drivers , do you know where I can get them? Thanks sooooo much
>in advance to everyone!
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