win 98 se update problem if 95 was original OS

[estevek]

The following quote is from the website of a vendor selling the Win98 SE update disk:

Product can have difficulties if your original windows 98 was an upgrade from windows 95.

Does anyone know what these difficulties can be and how to solve them? Thanks.

[ktkendall]

No I do not know what the difficulties are but I do know that if you don't care about doing a fresh install you can take your win98fe upg disk and do a clean win98 install with it as long as you have your win95 cd handy. It will ask U for it at one point for product verification. You'll just eject the win98 cd for a moment, pop in win95, it will scan it and tell you to put win98 back in and complete the install, then just run that win98 se updates disk. Or maybe you can buy that se update disk, save any critical data you're concerned about loosing, try the se update and if it does go south for the winter then just reformat the drive and do as I have suggested above. I would actually do the clean install, unless there was some highly critical data I could'nt back up or afford to loose...

[GaryRouth]

Does the vendor have an 800 phone number you could call, or an email address that you could use to send a question? I'd try that.

kt pretty much covered the bases as far as your options if things go wrong if you decide to try it anyway (backup your data, if things go wrong, use the Win98 original disk for a clean install, then run the update disk, then reinstall your programs)

But I'm thinking after as much work as you've done so far, you might be willing to try for a true full-version disk (whether the "full" or "upgrade" versions = either would do. With the "full" version, you'd just use the procedure for an "over-the-top" reinstall to do the upgrade with the full disk http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=70846 )

I took a quick look at eBay (I noticed from your other post you did too), and since there were so many, your chances of catching a full version for under $40 should be pretty good. If you're lucky, you might snag one for about $25. . .

I'm guessing that the upgrade vendor you saw for the Win98 "update" disk was Eagle Computer(http://www.saveateagle.com/micwin98seup.html) If so, they do have an 800 number. Here's their contact info:
Eagle Computer Systems, Inc.
1300 Wolf Park Drive
Germantown, TN 38138
TOLL FREE 800-845-6471
901-683-7851
Fax 901-685-3706

. . . maybe Hal or reboot or glc (or one of the many techs here) will know something about what "difficulties" might be possible with a Win95-upgraded Win98 and the update disk. Unfortunately I haven't heard of anything on this before.
. . . Gary

[bailey]

I think your misunderstanding this

if you win 95 was a update

if 95 was not a update it will work just fine.

[ktkendall]

Originally posted by bailey I think your misunderstanding this if you win 95 was a update if 95 was not a update it will work just fine.

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Product can have difficulties if your original windows 98 was an upgrade from windows 95.
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Truthfuly I think it will work, but If it were me I would get the w98 se update disk and do a clean install with the w98 upgrade disk than do the SE updates. I got my SE updates disk for $20 bucks right from Microsoft>>>

[RayH]

It will update Windows 98 to Windows 98SE regardless of whether or not the Windows 98 was an upgrade from Windows 95 or its own full, original installation.

But the Windows 98SE update was a bit wiggy beginning with a shutdown problem. It requires a shutdown patch from the gate.

But somewhere along the line, there were enough patches and whatever to Windows 98SE to make the thing a real stable OS.

[KHT]

Just go XP and solve the whole thing..