Backup of installed OS ??

Recently I re-installed a new copy of win98SE and was given the option of saving old system files. This amounted to a file of over 100mb. If I decide to re-install the old copy is it possible to save only portions of the old files?? Like were links from windows explorer saved and if so can I recover them or does the re-installing of the old file just returns everything ?? The new copy is working great but I should have saved a lot of good links that I had aquired over the years.

 

Not sure I understand ...
Did you reformat your root disk or just run Win98SE setup.exe
again ?
If the latter, your links in the "Favorites" folder should still be there.
regards

 

Hi Merlin
You know now I'm not sure what I did?? I thought I ran fdisk but when I re-installed win98 from my CD it asked me if I wanted to save a backup of my old OS ??? How could it have saved anything after I ran fdisk ?? Shouldn't that have eraced everything ??? I don't want to take a chance of running the backup again because I had some very strange things happening which was the reason I decided to do a clean install but I would like to get some of my old links back..

 

Whatever you did with Fdisk, it certainly didn't involve deleting a partition, creating a primary partition and making it active, rebooting, and then formatting the drive. All this would have erased everything.
If you uninstall the current installation of 98, you should have the old installation back as it was. I wouldn't know for sure, up to this day I have never met anyone or heard of anyone who has done this.
I do know that you would go through Add\Remove Programs to start the uninstall process.