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Look I know this seems bizar, but I need to downgrade a system running XP-Home to Windows 98.SE. The reason for this is quit simple.... this place of business uses a billing software that can only be installed on a win98 OS platform. The old system that the software was on died, so they bought a new michine. The new machine comes with: XP-home..Pent-4 @2.80ghz...512MB of mem...40gig Serial ATA hard drive...onboard Video,sound,USBx8,and Ethernet ports...and equipped with Hyper threading.
Big question??? can this be done on this systtem?? if yes I need to know how and what are my options.
Help:(
Kye
Im no expert but running a sata hard drive straight from the motherboard on windows 98SE ???
SATA has only come out this year. I would be surprised if windows 98SE had support for SATAYou could get,,, hmm,, virtual pc,, and run windows 98 in emulation
or try running it with the program commpatablity wizard as windows 98
as far as getting it to work, you might ask some windows 98 users if they can get sata to work.
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If the drive in the old rig is still woking the easiest thing to do may be to install that harddrive in the machine. You will need some type of boot program. Windows is capable of dual booting WinXP & Win98 but it takes some editing. Also there could be issues with the 98 install because of the different hardware. If that old harddrive is dead then I still think a dual boot is the best way to go.
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You'll also need Windows 98 SE or above. Earlier versions of Windows don't support SATA
I stand corrected. Thanks
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When dual booting there would not necessity be a need to support the SATA disk. I'm not sure if this would be a reason for Win98 to hang on boot or not.
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A dual Boot sounds like the best bet....As for a second hard drive there's no IDE controler on the motherboard. the system is pretty loaded, it's a DELL "Optiplex GX280"
Kye
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Well, the existing harddrive could be partitioned. The problem here is that you have a new/ under warranty machine that you would need to either try to use partitioning software or add a controller card. Using partitioning software on a SATA drive may not yeild the desired results. Are you sure there is no IDE ports on the MBoard. If this is the case then Dell has sunk to a new low for cheap. Is the optical drive also SATA? Have you considered the suggestions in post #1.
Is running this old program going to be the only function of this computer?
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This is what I would do if I were you.
1) Install Vmware in XP PC
2) Install Win 98 as guest OS
3) Install billing software in guest OS
4) Take out Harddrive from WIN98 PC
5) Install Win98 Harddrive into another Win98 PC as slave drive
6) Burn all relevent files from Billing
software onto CD
7) Transfer files from CD to guest OSYou will have to find out which files need to be transfered from the billing software but if you crack you will be able to have your billing software up & running within your XP PC.
Turn it off, wait a while, turn it back on again.
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This software won't even install?
You should be able to run it under the compatability mode.
Bryan
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