Re: Reloading old operating system

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:44:58 -0700

To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows XP CD-Rom and when you get to the point, delete the
existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the install. Or use
a utility named delpart. Once removed you can boot the win98 CD-Rom or
restore CD-Rom to start your install.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"John" wrote:
|A couple of months ago I upgraded my operating system from Windows 98SE to
| Windows XP Home. I formatted the drive and did a clean install, the file
| system is NTFS.
| I am now fed up with XP constantly generating errors on programs that I 
use
| daily and shutting them down, also it`s inability to load older Microsoft
| programs such as Encarta World Atlas without messing about in the 
registry.
| I now want to go back to Windows 98SE and normality.
|
| If I put the Windows 98 Disk into the CD drive and select the option "Will
| format drive and load Windows 98" will this convert the drive back to 
FAT32
| and load windows 98,or will I have to convert the drive to FAT32 first?

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