Win 98 is no more stable than Win Me, so rather than go through a new install of Win 98, I'd go get the updated drivers for my printer and my scanner. Reinstalling two peripherals with updated drivers is much easier and less time-consuming than doing an Fdisk, reformat, and reinstalling all your software and all your peripherals, especially since Win 98 is definitely no improvement. Do you have a Win 98 boot disk? If so, in answer to your last question, yes. It might also work with a Win Me boot disk, but I have no familiarity with what's on a Win Me boot disk. If you don't have a Win 98 boot disk, get a friend to make you one. hello! I have W ME with no partitions on the HD. I would like to make partitions and add W98SE since my scanner and printer do not work with WME. This is the solution I thought to apply. Also because WME is not that stable. How do I do that? I also thought about taking scanner and printer away and reinstall them with the proper drivers for WME. But I still would like to have my W98 back. Does WME support the installation of another OS like W2000? If I format the HD and take WME away, will I still have the reading of my floppy and CD-Rom so that I can install things? The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com