{"id":17,"date":"2005-05-04T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/re-installing-win9x-me\/"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T01:19:18","slug":"re-installing-win9x-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/re-installing-win9x-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-installing Win9x \/ ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Keywords: Install Win9x Win98 WinME Millenium<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Issue<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span>If you re-install Windows 98 over Windows ME or Windows 98 SE, you receive an error similar to the following:<\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><em>&#8220;Operating system installed is newer, can&#8217;t upgrade&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><strong>Cause<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span>I had forgotten about this. When you install Win98, SE, or ME, it scans the root folder and 1st-level subfolders for win.com.<\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><strong>Resolution<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span>Rename (never delete anything) win.com to win.bak or win.old<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Re-run setup<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span>SETUP \/im \/is \/id<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\/im=Skip memory test<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\/is=Skip scandisk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\/id=Skip disk space check<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keywords: Install Win9x Win98 WinME Millenium IssueIf you re-install Windows 98 over Windows ME or Windows 98 SE, you receive an error similar to the following:&#8220;Operating system installed is newer, can&#8217;t upgrade&#8221;CauseI had forgotten about this. When you install Win98, SE, or ME, it scans the root folder and 1st-level subfolders for win.com.Resolution Rename (never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}