reinstalling windows 98 se

[snopro879]

Our old comp downstairs which has windows 98 se, keeps saying, windows explorer has encountered an error, it is reccomended that you reinstall windows. Well, i tried what i thought was reinstalling for my computer once before, and i ended up with 3 OS's...so yea i dont want that to happend down stairs. If i put the disk in and go throught the wholed setup and install process will it create a new copy of windows or will it just copy over the old windows files fixing any problems? thanks.

 

[yashar]

well the reason you have 3 os's is because you're not partitioning when installing. you tell the computer to just add win98. you're supposed to say copy over the old OS.

 

[snopro879]

yea but it doesnt really say to copy files over old ones, i hit setup and it begins installing, and the reason i had 3 os's before is because i didnt know what i was doing...the whole reason why i said that was to explain why i am kinda scared to run the win98 setup on the other computer downstairs.

 

[snopro879]

ok ive read what ive written and it may be confusing...basically, when i hit setup.exe on the computer, it began installing windows, without the option of copying new files over old files, it just began installing windows. I want to know if this will create a new windows 98 se or will it just copy over the old one?

 

[irbigbird]

When I ran win a second and third time it installed over the original installation and corrected the error.

 

[somedudex]

So create a startup and re-format

 

[snopro879]

that was suppsed to be my last resort