I want to play many of my older dos-based games and haven't been able to get the 'fixes' for xp that have been suggested to work so i just want to uninstall xp and reinstall 98.... my problem is that xp came with this computer and i didn't have an xp cd, ever....so how do i format the drive and install my old 98? and the 98 cd doesn't seem to want to install over xp.... soooo what do i do now? austin

Make sure you really want to do this.... Your hard drive is probably NTFS formatted; Win98 does not recognize NTFS. Start your computer with a boot disk, and run fdisk to delete the partition. Recreate a partition and format it... P.S. I'd recommend partitioning your hard drive, instead of deleting Windows XP. Look at http://www.petri.co.il/install_win98_after_xp.htm for info on installing Win98 after WinXP

thanks for the tip....i'll try your recommendation first... a

have you tried running the games under compatibility mode? create a shortcut to the *.exe file you run the start the game, then in 'properties' for the shortcut, you'll find compability mode