13-10-2012, 09:35 PM
The short answer is "No."
I don't have a master disc for Vista or XP, just image back-ups of the hard drives, and the one with Windows 98se would struggle to run anything newer. I fully agree though that that would be the best solution.
It's one of those things where my stubbornness is over-ruling common-sense as I haven't really any use for the old '98se m/c anyway.
I'd actually de-commissioned it but then, when looking for something else, found a thing called KernelEX which allows it to run some XP/W2000 applications which includes FireFox 3. If I could get the lap-top to talk to it I could use its anti-virus software to scan the hard disk periodically as modern anti-virus programs won't run on '98se, and would slow it down too much if they would. That said there does seem to be a consensus of opinion that modern viruses wouldn't know how to do their thing on it either.
Beyond that it's all about learning and getting experience on things that don't matter is handy for things that do.
- Joe
I don't have a master disc for Vista or XP, just image back-ups of the hard drives, and the one with Windows 98se would struggle to run anything newer. I fully agree though that that would be the best solution.
It's one of those things where my stubbornness is over-ruling common-sense as I haven't really any use for the old '98se m/c anyway.
I'd actually de-commissioned it but then, when looking for something else, found a thing called KernelEX which allows it to run some XP/W2000 applications which includes FireFox 3. If I could get the lap-top to talk to it I could use its anti-virus software to scan the hard disk periodically as modern anti-virus programs won't run on '98se, and would slow it down too much if they would. That said there does seem to be a consensus of opinion that modern viruses wouldn't know how to do their thing on it either.
Beyond that it's all about learning and getting experience on things that don't matter is handy for things that do.
- Joe
