Downgrade from WinME to Win98SE - How?

[george52]

Hi. I purchased a PC with WIN ME already installed. I haven't had major problems with it, except when I am on the Internet, but I have read so much about it being slower than 98 and basically more of a pig. How can I downgrade to Win98 from ME? I have a Win98SE upgrade CD from my old PC that I could use, but I'm not sure how to "uninstall" ME.
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[Karl Blessing]

you cant if its a fresh install, you'll need to format, then reinstall from the win98 CD, if you upgraded FROM winme(maybe the store did that but I doubt it) you could just say "uininstall windows millenium" but yea you'd have to format it (I'd find that hard to do without dos)

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[kc0bfv]

An upgrade CD you say? I hope you have the full win98 or win98se also or you'll have some problems. [sig][/sig]

 

[george52]

I have the upgrade because on my old PC, I went from 95 to 98. I have reformatted the old PC before and reinstalled 98 using the upgrade disk. It asks for the 95 disk to verify that you had the earlier version and then it will do a clean install. [sig][/sig]

 

[Zelandakh]

Never tried ME to 98, but 95 to 98 and back again and so on work by renaming win.com and then installing... [sig]<p>Zel<br><a href=mailto:zel@zelandakh.co.uk>zel@zelandakh.co.uk</a><br><a href= > </a><br> [/sig]

 

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How can I format in winodws ME .
or restart in DOS prompt?

 

[axslinger]

Go to a Win 98 machine, pop in a floppy, go to a DOS prompt and type &quot;format A: /s /u&quot; When it's finished formatting copy the file C:\command\format.com to the root of the floppy disk.
Now, take that disk to your WinME PC, and pop it in the floppy drive. Do a hard reset (doesn't matter since your'e formatting anyhow). When the PC boots to the floppy, at the A: prompt type &quot;format c: /u /s&quot;. If you wish, add /q for a quick format. When it's done formatting remove the floppy and reboot.
Once rebooted, put in the driver floppy for your cd rom and run the setup on that disk. This will install Real-mode CD ROM Drivers. Remove the floppy, reboot.
Now, put in your Win98 Cd and check to see if you can access it. type D: and hit enter. Then do a dir. If all is well go back to c: by typing c: and hit enter.
Type &quot;makedir cabs&quot; and hit enter. Now type &quot;copy d:\win98\*.cab c:\cabs&quot; and hit enter.
Sometimes when installing Win98 or Win95 you will lose access to the CD ROM drive because the windows install REM's those lines out of your Config.sys and Autoexe.bat before the protected-mode windows drivers are loaded. Then it can't see the CD ROM drive to finish the install. By copying the *.cab files to the hard drive, if the install asks you to insert the Windows 98 CD during setup, just browse to C:\Cabs and click OK.

Now, type D:\setup and go paint the house.

Brian