I’m assuming from his wording, that it could have been an upgrade, as he says he “still has” some old sofware on the machine?That is probably not going to work anyway. You are trying to put a wind-up motor in a race car...
I have tried it with Windows 95 in a computer that was originally build with Windows 2K. It did not work as Windows 9x will have issues with memory..
This 10000x! If it's a relatively recent machine, I wouldn't bother trying to install Windows 98 on it directly - hardware has changed so much over 22 years. Instead, run W98 in a Virtual Machine like https://www.virtualbox.org/ - you'll be able to keep Windows 10 on the machine and then run Windows 98 as if it were an application on your desktop. Best of both worlds .Best bet would be to run Win 98 in a VM. To virtualize hardware conditions so that Windows 98 can run.
Food for thought, after pondering the posts here!
I don’t know the answer, but, in a virtual machine, would’t the os still be trying to use the host software/drivers?
The op seems to have vanished for a while, so we may never know what he tried
Went with this suggestion, but am having issues during the install process on virtualbox. Does anyone know how to get around this error?This 10000x! If it's a relatively recent machine, I wouldn't bother trying to install Windows 98 on it directly - hardware has changed so much over 22 years. Instead, run W98 in a Virtual Machine like https://www.virtualbox.org/ - you'll be able to keep Windows 10 on the machine and then run Windows 98 as if it were an application on your desktop. Best of both worlds .
I have an older pc I would like to downgrade to Win 98 so I can use some old games. This pc does have some useful files( a LOT of music) I would like to keep. Any help will be greatly appreciated..........Jay
Thank You all for the replies. The pc I am working on is a newer(2-3yr old) machine I want to install 98 on to run old Sim City versions. Thanks to you guys I have changed the max ram to 512mb and the VM box comes up. It still is not full screen but is OK. How can I install Sim City to the virtual 98 hard drive?? Or should I format another Win 10 machine I have and just make it a 98 or XP pc???Well it depends where those useful file are. What i would do is get an external drive and copy the useful files there and then you can install WIn98. Im surprised that a PC that came with WIn98 would run WIndows 10. IDE drives had problems with WIndows 7 and today's PC's mostly come with SATA drives or even newer PCIe drives.
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