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The best way to reinstall 98 is to a clean disk. But the upgrade looks for a previous version of Windows before it will install. Here're a few workarounds for that problem.

• 1. Assuming your startup disk accesses your CDROM, just format C: then reboot with the startup floppy, run setup as usual, when the upgrade asks for a previous version, put in your Win95 cd, after it roots through that for a while, it'll tell you to put the 98 cd back in.

   

• 2. If you have the Win95 cabs on your hard drive, point the confirmation to that folder.

   

• 3. You can also point the check to your 3.x or 95 install floppies. This is the slowest method, since you have to put in a slew of the floppies before 98's satisfied.