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01-16-2004, 10:31 AM
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renaming win.com to win.bak
Hello. I was trying to load over the top from win 98Fe to Win98Se,with this command in the C: \Windows> rename win.com win.bak
but it gives me and msg like this: Invalid command application in use. Please help me Thanks. |
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01-16-2004, 10:38 AM
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That sounds like you've just opened a DOS window while in Windows... boot from your CD with CD support... switch to the windows directory.. then do it.
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01-16-2004, 12:49 PM
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Opps... the error msg was like this: FILE IN USE.
Tnx. Hal for the quick response, but I did boot in a C prompt then I did these after that:: from A : I typed: C: then at C prompt i typedL cd\windows then the C:\Windows> prompt appeared and I typed this : ren win.com win.bak btw, I just found out that the OS was Win95 first and Win98FE was loaded over it and the win.bak file exist already when I did the FIND files. What shall I do now to load Win98SE over FE now? |
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01-16-2004, 01:02 PM
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Yes... just load that over top. My bench machine at work was originally Win95, FE went on top, SE on top of that, ME on top of that, and now XP on top of that.
If you're still having trouble, copy the file to a new one then delete the old one. Personally, I guess I'm a little more of a risk taker, I just delete the WIN.COM file. |
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01-16-2004, 02:14 PM
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Hal tnx again., before I proceed I just want to clarify what you meant.
At C: \windows> prompt, I will copy the win.com and the win.bak to another folder or floppy disk? Then delete them all? So, It means I will not RENAME anything anymore and I will just change Dir to D: (where my CD drive and my Win98SE CD are?) Then I will type SETUP. This means I will not restart my computer at any time until I finished the installations? Is this the correct steps? |
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01-16-2004, 03:18 PM
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Just rename win.com to win.xxx or win.old, or win.bad, or anything. The idea is to simply rename win.com so it's not recognized, so a new win.com can be written during the upgrade, and the process will work.
You could move them to a floppy, but copying them won't do it. The DOS command for move is (DUH!): move c:\windows\win.com a:\ |
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01-17-2004, 03:00 AM
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Here's a long-winded, detailed, literature-major guide for that procedure I learned from Hal and reboot years ago (I'm lazier than they are, though, so I put it in Tips & Tricks) http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...hreadid=70846. . . If you've already done the over-the-top, and didn't name the install directory C:\Windows (rather than C:\Windows.000) Hal has a Tip in that same forum that describes how to fix it. http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=38140
. . . Gary |
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