W98 - very clean install required

Hi all

is there any way that I can make a _totally_ clean install of Windows98 onto the C: partition of a PC which has old versions of Windows on its other partitions, please...

every time I have tried this, Windows has insisted on finding the other (old) versions and has insisted in copying bits from them.This is what I want to avoid.

perhaps remaning certain files and folders on the other partitions might disguise the older versions sufficiently?

Better, is there a command line switch that stops setup from finding older versions? Run: Setup /nobble or something...

I only have the upgrade CDROM so would be putting W3.11 or W95 on first

I was going to do it onto a separate HDD which would have worked fine, but I cannot get that one bootable (despite fdisk, formatting, even tried norton) I can sys it OK but it doesn't become bootable because of ez-bios hassles. Even maxtor's utility doesn't do it. Grrr. (probably 'coz the ez-bios was Western Digital's??)

any suggestions much appreciated!

Good Luck all, Hugh.

 

Find all the win.com files and rename them (win.sav) untill after the install!

Mike

 

Nice one Mike, thanks...

Best Wishes as ever, Hugh