Windows 98 to Windows 7 x32

To clearify, you can install Windows 7 on that computer IF the hardware supports it!

The problem is that you say the machine is a Windows 98 system. That's a really old system, and if you haven't done any upgrades, than yeah, Windows 7 won't install.

You know the system WAY better than we do. However If I were to bet, I'd say you're not going to get 7 to install on that Windows 98 machine due to hardware issues.

I'm thinking that if you had did any upgrades, you would have at least moved to Windows XP.

My two cents.

cat139lyleb said:

Well, why that Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP and 2008 and able to installing from COMMAND (MS-DOS) by manually without boot up from CD and USB... but not from windows vista and 7???? that's really RIP OFF!!! so there supposed be other way to manually for windows 7 in the COMMAND??? without being in the windows 98se??

Win7 won't probably install on your Win98 PC

Minimum requirements:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) processor.
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit)
  
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit)
  
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.

yes, very true but this computer from HP was windows XP... so what?
for while but sadly that windows XP been damaged from viruses so i had to re-format to and install windows 98 SE because viruses been kill that restore in HP's Default windows XP... also there no CD with it... only I have Windows 98 SE so I work on it for 5 days so, give me break!

cat139lyleb said:

Well, why that Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP and 2008 and able to installing from COMMAND (MS-DOS) by manually without boot up from CD and USB... but not from windows vista and 7???? that's really RIP OFF!!! so there supposed be other way to manually for windows 7 in the COMMAND??? without being in the windows 98se??

In a word... no.

Out ot curiousity, can you tell us the specs on that system?

cat139lyleb said:

yes, very true but this computer was windows XP... so what?

Well why doesn't it have an optical drive?

So what are the full specs of the computer? You have been asked by numerous people and for whatever reason you aren't answering the question.

A new PC would be better, even if Win7 installs you won't probably find compatible drivers and you might run into BSODs

Post your specs here (Start>Run>msinfo32)

oh, thank you for remind me!... it's PIII (Intel) 1.2 GHZ, RAM 1GB 133MHZ... HHDs: 8GB, 13GB and 24GB...