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Might be that the file you recieved was compressed under another OS (maybe Win2000). Before tossing the file, try opening it with a good compression utility (such as WinRAR). If you can view the file's contents you may be able to extract to a temp directory and install from there (virus&trojan scan it prior). If you use the upgrade option it'll carry over your old installations, and archive your old OS in case you want to go back to it. However, it's likely that you've got a bad copy and need to find a better one (if you want less hassles - buy it). As Pcfanatic2 stated, WinXp will offer to partition your drive for you upon install. If you have a large drive (over 147GB then use Partitian Magic - XP has issues with large drives and isn't that good for utilizing the full capacity even on smaller drives)). Also as pcfanatic2 mentioned, you really won't want (or need) Win98 after installing XP. XP, by default has more bells and whistles, but it also has the option to mimic the plain-Jane Win98 desktop. XP is compatible with all your 98 software (and 95 and most Win3.x). It's also very stable, fast and easy to work with. The major considerations when moving to XP though is whether you have the drive space (2-3GB) to permanently loose to the OS and have a decent amount of RAM (256M or more).
"If there is no windows 98, can I still access the windows xp pro corp.exe?" Yes, before starting, created a 3.5" floppy boot disk. Format it with the /s option to copy over your system files and copy some useful files from your /dos directory : edit.*, doskey.*, scandisk.*, fdisk.*... and autoexec.bat and config.sys from c:\. So you should be able to pop in the disc at boot, CD over to the exec and run it. Of course, if you've got the retail (store bought) package this is unneccessary.
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