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Wayne,
For what it's worth, I also had an upgrade from 3.1 to 95 to 98.
I backed up my data just in case and then installed Win98 as an
upgrade. I had no problems with the installation and everything is
still working with no lockups (knock on wood <G>).
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: wayne walusiak <waynewal@xxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 12:10 PM
Subject: Win 98 installation/upgrade
>I have MS 6.5 and am contemplating upgradin to Win98. (will keep this
>short..)
>I have a pentium 200mmx, 3d graphics card, 98meg of ram, and a 2.1
gig
>hard disk with about 300 MB free.
>From what I've seen here it is better to backup my MS files and then
>reformat the HD, install win98 from scratch and 'restore' my MS
files
>from the backup - currently a SparQ I just bought - I used the
>NovaDisk supplied with the SparQ.
>I have an original win 3.1 disk, upgrade version of win95.
>Questions:
>1) How do I avoid having to instll win 3.1 from scratch, then win95
>then win 98 ? Or is the win98 upgrade a 'full version' that I can
>boot from?
>2) What problems occurred with MStock when you restored it and the
>data files ?
>You can reply directly to save forum mssg space or if you think it
>worthwhile just reply to this mssg. Thanks & apologies to the others
>who weren't interested...
>
>wayne walusiak waynewal@xxxxxxxxx
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