Hi,

I have a seriously ill puter that won't even boot into safe mode. It runs Win ME. I have NO user backup. I have gotten it to where I can do a Windows 98 Setup install from the CD drive of a booting situation.

Will this delete my user files?

Any help will be appreciated.....THX!!

Hi russifam welcome to PCHF

This isn't my expertise but one of the techs will be along soon

That would be great since I'm sitting here thinking, do I DARE hit NEXT to continue!!!

Thanks for the welcome!!

Dont hit that next button yet !! There is a way to reinstall 98 over the top of itself, by running setup with w98 running, and installing it into the same directory. But, it doesnt always work, and i dont think itll work at all over the top of ME, you may lose all your data. I would definately back up everything before i tried it. Have a look here for more info:
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