I have a laptop with win 95 and wanted to put on my win98, So what i wanted to do was to delete win95, i was looking at this site to see how to do it , this mean't i have to get into dos. i could not get into dos and press F8 to click in safe mode on this page i entered number 8 REVERT TO OLD DOS the i pressed enter. I knew i had pressed the wrong button so i switch it off
now it will not start up it only goes to the first page which say's
memory initialize 16128kb
PLEASE HELP BEFORE MY DAD KILLS ME
THANKS

post your message on the win9x group.
I am not sure but if you delete your win.ver
file you should be able to install 98 on top of 95.
ace

You have just discovered the major flaw with Win95. If you didn't install DOS6.22 on your system before installing Win95, and you pressed the Revert To Old DOS option, it hoses your operating system.

You have 2 options at this point, Re-nstall Win95 or wipe the hard drive clean by formatting it, then do a fresh install of Win98.

how do i format

You can go here and download my bootdisk

boot disk with CD support

and format with that or, go into your BIOS and set it to boot to the CD ROM first. Then put in your Win98 CD, boot to it, and I believe it gives you the option to format and install Windows.
Sorry, I'm a little rusty with the Win98 install (it's been a while) but I'm sure someone else here can help with the details.

Yeah, that does really SUCKS. I have done it also, and worst: it weren't in my computer! It were in a friend's. Just imagine the situation....

But, hey Roger! have I understood well? You said he could reintall Win95 WITHIOUT formating? Is that possible? I'm cofused...

-- Secret_Doom --

It's been a really long time since I have had to support Win95 with this error so I'm kinda rusty, but I believe it is possible. You will need to set your BIOS to boot from CD ROM. Then put in your Win95 CD. It should give the option to re-install Win95.

But before you do this, If there is any way to take out your drive and take it to a working machine and install it as a second drive, please do so. This way you can copy any important data to a working machine, just in case.

Well now that I think about it, the Win95 CD may not be bootable (I told you I was a little rusty). You may have to boot up with the boot disk supplied with the Win95 CD. If you don't have one, you can make one with a working Win95 system, or use the bootdisk I offered in my previous post.

You could also try using a Win 95 boot disk to sys the C: drive. If it hasn't been formatted, boot w/ the floppy and type; sys c: at the A:\ prompt. You should know beforehand though which version of 95 was on there so you use the proper boot disk. Just to make sure. I'm rusty on this as well.

If all the files (you want to keep) still on the drive can reinstall windows95 back into system at c:\windows by putting in a BOOT disk that can load up the CD-ROM as well(win98 makes a good one that uses ram drive and works with win95 ok-so get copy of a pal)you go to cd drive D:\ ? with win95b CD in it -and type SETUP.When asks where to install-change c:\windows.000 to c:\windows(the origonal folder)-this will put w95 back