Bollocks!
Worked Okay again today.
Both my W95 and W98 CDs are OEM, are not Boot CDs and don’t have dedicated start-up floppies. This means it has been mandatory to have a Boot floppy with CD-ROM enabling drivers.
Trashed 6GB notebook HD, repartitioned three 2GB partitions and reformatted as FAT.
Booted to DOS with floppy. Ran “SETUP” from W95 CD root and installed clean W95 in directory C
Windows accepting all defaults.
So far so good.
Then installed Word and Excel from Office 97. Tested OK.
Using Windows Explorer, changed Win.com in C
Windows to Win.old and closed down. Rebooted with floppy and ran “SETUP” on the W98 CD-ROM. The installation found C
Windows and offered to install W98 in C
Windows.000, but I changed that to C
Windows and let it rip. No problems. All config files in C
were overwritten and C
Windows now containes W98. When done, Word and Excel still worked fine.
So it can be made to work and that can be a way of keeping your Apps working because all your shortcuts and App specific DLLs will be intact
Hope this is a help and sorry if it is a grandmother/egg case, but I wanted to be more safe than sorry; it has been useful Continuation Training for me.
I shall now try out my Student Pack Windows 2000 on that HD.
PS. After all that, I found the origial W98 Installation Floppy! If you have lost yours and would like a replacemant, I could e-mail the 18 files to you. Biggest is 272KB.
[This message has been edited by fobotcso (edited 23 September 2000).]