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hfeltd
June 5th, 2007, 11:36 PM
Hi guys
sorry if i have posted this in the wrong place am new to all this and just starting to find my feet.
i bought a pariot laptop from a friend for £50 oldish model running Windows Me when i use the laptop the mouse goes haywire and then freezes without even touching it and i can find a way to fix it so i want to format the hard drive and start again,
however the laptop came with no cds etc i have a copy of win 98 (orignal) with numbers etc that i bought a few years ago and never used i want to if possible format the machine and install this version of 98.
could anybody out there please give me any advice tips help etc of how to do this?
thanks in advance
Stu

Miz
June 6th, 2007, 12:52 AM
A guide to perform a clean install of Windows 98 is on this page (http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/win98/install/clean.html).

You will have to do a clean install (format the drive wipe everything off it first) because Windows 98 cannot be installed over top of an existing Windows ME installation. The page I linked to explains how to do that.