My C drive is 3/4 full and I am trying to delete stuff I do not need. Do I need this win95 folder when I am running Windows 98?

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Hi Vicki.

Well you only need one Win9x and I would opt for Win98SE.

So if you have a CD writer then write all the files you want to save to a CD. If 
you don't have a writer and Win95 doesn't really support a flash drive then you will 
have to WinZip all your files and put them on to floppies.

How big is your hard drive?

It maybe worth investing in a larger main drive and use you existing one as a slave 
drive.






On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 7:46 am, Vicki Lopez wrote:
|Do I need this win95 folder when I am running Windows 98?

No, you format the drive clean and install Win98 only. 

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Yes, although deleting stuff will gain you a temporary repreive, if your hard disc 
(I'm assuming you only have the one?) is three quarters full it is time to invest 
in a larger one - you can get an enormous drive for pennies these days.

The simplest thing to do would be install the new one as the secondary master and 
use it for all your data, leaving Win98 and installed programs on the C: drive.

If your C: drive is quite full with just Windows and programs (and no data files) 
on it, then it'd be best to install the larger disc as the primary master (C: drive). 
 I'd do this in stages: 

First install new disc as secondary master (D:).
Format new disc.
Copy everything from C: to D:.
Now install new disc as primary master and old disc as secondary master.
Install Windows 98SE onto the new disc.
Format the old disc, wiping it clean.
Copy all your data from the new disc to the old disc.

Can anyone comment whether I've got the sequence of events right here - I don't want 
to cause Shirl to lose her data...  

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I assume, although you do not say, that you obtained Windows 98 by upgrading from an earlier installation of Windows 95, using a Microsoft Windows 98 upgrade CD.

If that is the case, then you do not need the folder C:\Win95 because that is a backup which the Windows 98 upgrade program made, to enable you to reinstall Windows 95 if you decided at some point that you didn't like Windows 98.

The folder C:\Win95 was originally your Windows folder, when you were running Win95. It has been renamed, in order to install Win98 into a new C:\WINDOWS folder.

You don't need C:\Win95 for running Windows 98. But do check the contents of that folder before deleting it, in case you have any of your own data files left in it!

Check specifically two places: firstly check C:\Win95\Desktop in case the old desktop survives (where you might have stored some data), and check C:\Win95\Favorites (where you might have stored some Internet Explorer shortcuts as favorites).

Otherwise, if Windows 98 is working without any problems, and all your devices (printer, modem, scanner, mouse, etc) all work okay, you probably don't need the old system files and device drivers from your Windows 95 days any more.

Ed




On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 7:46 am, Vicki Lopez wrote:
>My C drive is 3/4 full and I am trying to delete stuff I do not need. Do I need
>this win95 folder when I am running Windows 98?

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Do you have a Windows 95 installation disc (or more likely, set of floppies)?  If 
not, and if your copy of Windows 98 is an upgrade version, I wouldn't erase the Win95 
folder in case you need to reinstall Windows 98.

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Thank you all for your help. I will probably do the additional drive option. Vicki

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In that case you might find this link helpful:

 INSTALLING, PARTITIONING AND FORMATTING HARD DRIVES

Ed




On Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 4:10 pm, Vicki Lopez wrote:
>Thank you all for your help. I will probably do the additional drive option.
>Vicki

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