"Donny Broome" wrote:

> For what purpose are you booting the PC with a floppy? A bootable DOS

My ex bought a supposedly new unused XP Pro CD from a "friend" of hers. The
CD had been used before and when she went to activate the operating system,
she was told that the CD had been activated too many times. I want to
install an old version of 98 I have from an old system, but the CD is a full
version and won't let me install over XP Pro. I can't find out how to return
her pc to its pre XP state and want to format her c: drive so that my 98
version will load.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
> separately to more than one newsgroup

My apologies ... won't happen again

http://www.bootdisk.com for the Win 98 boot diskette..

http://www.fdisk.com to learn how to use FDISK

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Brett" <Brett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Donny Broome" wrote:
>
>> For what purpose are you booting the PC with a floppy? A bootable DOS
>
> My ex bought a supposedly new unused XP Pro CD from a "friend" of hers.
> The
> CD had been used before and when she went to activate the operating
> system,
> she was told that the CD had been activated too many times. I want to
> install an old version of 98 I have from an old system, but the CD is a
> full
> version and won't let me install over XP Pro. I can't find out how to
> return
> her pc to its pre XP state and want to format her c: drive so that my 98
> version will load.

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> http://www.bootdisk.com for the Win 98 boot diskette..
>
> http://www.fdisk.com to learn how to use FDISK
Thanks Mike. I appreciate the help.
Brett

Brett wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>> Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
>> separately to more than one newsgroup
>
> My apologies ... won't happen again


Apology accepted, and thanks for understanding.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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In news61F5FD2-12C8-42A9-AE90-1D966DF4B8A3@microsoft.com,
Brett <Brett@discussions.microsoft.com> replied with a ;-)
> "Donny Broome" wrote:
>
>> For what purpose are you booting the PC with a floppy? A bootable DOS
>
> My ex bought a supposedly new unused XP Pro CD from a "friend" of
> hers. The CD had been used before and when she went to activate the
> operating system, she was told that the CD had been activated too
> many times. I want to install an old version of 98 I have from an
> old system, but the CD is a full version and won't let me install
> over XP Pro. I can't find out how to return her pc to its pre XP
> state and want to format her c: drive so that my 98 version will load.

Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
See #3 on the FAQ list titled
Remove XP and install 98/Me
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html
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