How do I go back to Win 98 from Win 2k

[LarryF]

I gave my hand-me-down machine to my daughter. I have win2k loaded. She need win98 to work with her printer and some programs.

What is the best way to get back to win98.

It's an older k63 system. It has IBM Disk Go (so it will recognize the larger hard drive). I had loaded win 2k over win98. If I try to boot to win98 now evetually crashes. I'd like to do a clean win98 install. What is the best way? I have Driveworks if that will help.

She is a little kid. It has to boot up directly to win98 when the power button is pushed. In other words, I don't want to have to go through a boot option page.

Thanks

 

[HarveyFish]

Format C:. Anything else will be a nightmare for you.

 

[MGMorden]

Here's an option: use Lilo. Seriously. You don't have to install Linux, just use one of the single floppy distros. If you setup lilo properly you can have one FAT32 partition and another NTFS. Just set Lilo to have no delay and have the fat32 be default and voila. Turn on the machine and it goes straight to 98, BUT if you hold down ALT or SHIFT when booting then you'll get a boot menu where you can choose 2k if you want. That would be simple enough for her to turn it on and use it but you could still use Win2k when you wanted to.

 

[TegSkywalker]

I would just say back up your stuff on CDRs or ZIP disks or something (like drivers, programs, etc) and wipe the hard drive totally clean. Ya know.. go into FDISK and remove the NTFS partiton and create a new FAT32 one.
Starting over from scratch is always a good thing. Especially when NTFS (NT4, Win2k, WinXP) isnt supported by the FAT32 based Windows 95/98/ME.