TONY MOORE
New Member
Hello back again. I wont beat about the bush so here it is.I bought a second hand pc for my kids to muck about on and on getting it home it worked fine, but it had windows ME on it and other stuff i didn`t want eg family trees and pictures. so i decided to try and put windows 98 on it,I have a 98 cd for pcs without windows but it would not let me install it until i got rid of any other versions which i couldnt from add remove programs. so like a fool i decided to use a boot up disc and try the 7 options but icant with any of them. the messages i get are starting win98 setup and then it says this version only runs on ms.dos 8.00. if i press f5 safe mode it says A:\> but i dont know what to type in, if i type something in it says bad command or file if i do master restore it says not ready reading drive x i. Is there something wrong with my discs i have a boot up,system restore floppy and win 98 cd from my old pc that does not work at all.Although i have never done this should i try to swap the hd,cd rom and memory to the pc i bought for my kids ( you can see im a novce) wish i had of left it as it was, only good thing it only cost £8.00.