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I presently own an e-machines computer that came with windows 98 installed when I purchased it new about 3 yrs. ago.I just purchased a new computer which comes with no operating system and I wish to install the windows 98 that I am the registeres owner of in my new machine. Is this possibnle? If so, how? thanks for your help.
You can install it on as many machines as you like.. just dont tell Bill Gates. Why did you purchase a computer with no operating system? Depending on who put it together and what hardware they put in it, you may have to do a little more work than just sticking the cd in and installing windows. good luck!
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There is a program from Norton (symantec) called Ghost. It will mirror image all your files and it is possible to transfer those files to the new computer.
On install of Op system look to left of your message for install guide, it is well worth reading to help you.
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If your new system is significanly different from your old system, then the odss of a Ghost transfer is somewhere between poor an impossible.
Buy a new copy of WinXP and see for yourself how much better it is than the POS Win98.
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P.S.: You are not the registered owner of any operating system. You are simply the registered licensee. You own NOTHING.
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I would stick with the win98 for now. I have XP and still have not loaded it until I am sure all drivers,patches,software,hardware, are compliant to my PC,and associated programs and hardware. Another thing to keep in mind which you may be aware of already 98 can be switched from one machine to another XP is a one unit install.
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Ok, since nobody else is helping, here's something to try...Look in the HD of the emachine and see if there is a Win98 directory. If there is, that is probably the Win98 folder from the CD which was copied onto the HD. If it's not there, take a look in C:\Windows\Options\Cabs and see if all of the .CAB files have been copied there. In addition to the .cab files, there should also be about 20 other files, the most important of which is setup.exe.
If you find these in either location, you have several choices:
1) If both computers have NIC's, you can boot the new computer with a DOS Network bootdisk to network the 2 computers & share files.
2) If you don't have NIC's, but have a CD-RW, you can burn the files to a CD.
3) If you don't have a burner, you can use laplink to connect the computers.
4) You could temporarily install the HD from the new computer as secondary Master in the old computer & copy the contents of the Win98 directory, then reinstall the HD into the new computer to run setup.
You can get a DOS Ethernet Bootdisk here:
You can get Laplink here:
Hope this helps.
Dave
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