dont you know anyone you can use their old 98 cd to install freshly on your comp, then use your upgrade cd?

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Yeah, I know one person with one...it's an upgrade itself which is fine. I'm gonna get it from him later today.

I think the Dell resource CD is the biggest pile.

RobbieB,

Instructions for using the Dell Recovery CD for Windows 98 (which do not include commands from a DOS prompt) can be found here.

Since you want to do a clean install, follow the instructions here. Note that after the drive is formatted, you change to the CD-ROM drive (by entering F: if that is the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive plus one), then typing setup without a slash.

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You do not need to install 98 Just point your upgrade to the drive that the CD that 98 is located. Since I have to CD ROM Drives I put Xp in one driive and (8 in another and then XP found 98 so I could than do a clean install. I am sure the samething works for ME

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