Uninstall before reinstall on 98se?

[justvincez]

Hi everyone. My win98se is corrupt and it will be difficult to repair all issues one by one so I am going to reinstall 98se. I have the cd, start up diskette and key code. My question is "do I need to uninstall the 98se currently running before I go thru the install procedure?".

I ask because I followed the good instruction @ www.windowsreinstall.com/indexwin98.htm but cannot procede to the second step because DOS tells me drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT 32. It lists suggestions to fix but I tried them and they do not fix the issue. If I uninstall everything first, wouldn't the hard drive be clean and empty and I could install with no problems?

Any comments and suggestions is appreciated. Vince

[HayZee518]

after reformatting your hard drive you need to install windows 98 THEN windows 98se. the special edition needs some cab files off windows 98 to fully install.