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Jeffrey Delzer <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:36:43 -0500
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Al Anger wrote:
>
> Anyone using Win 98 Beta3 should not test for Y2K compliance. It will
> expire your beta version.
>
> Should you find yourself with a W98 system that won't boot; the fix is to
> boot with an old boot disk, not the W98 rescue disk. If you boot with the
> W98 rescue disk, it will be disabled also.
>
> Boot with any 6.22/Win95 boot disk containing sys.com, set the S, R,
> attributes in C:\ to off.

For those of us who have switched over to Win98's FAT32, an older
6.22/Win95 boot disk won't properly initialize the C: drive, will it? If
not, what's the best course of action? I'd rather not go back to FAT16,
if possible. TIA

Jeff Delzer

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