Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

You'll probably need to reformat the hard drive which contains W2k before installing w98se. I
found I needed to do that when I was replacing w2k with w98se.

Paul Breeze

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:12:46 -0400, Martin J. Osborne wrote:
>> Also a question: Has anyone purchased a new desktop and installed W98SE
>> just to keep XyDos running well? If so, was this done in a partition?
>
> That's not as easy as it sounds ... If you buy a computer with W2K
>loaded, at least, it appears to be difficult to install W98SE over it. The
>Windows information says you can't do it. I presume in fact there is *some*
>way of doing it, but if there is, it must involve some low level work (more
>than just inserting a CD in the drive...)
>
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