Upgrading to WinXP.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by TippeX

you dont have to reformat, xp has a program to convert fat32 drives to ntfs and so on.. 98 is dead.. there is one reason to upgrade and if you cant find a driver for xp for your hardware then your hardware is either (1) rare (2) discontinued, all in all im sorry dabhand but the reasons you state really dont hold water

Oh yes they do..


It is my business after all, reinstalling etc....


When upgrading from 98>XP (Not a fresh install but an upgrade) you arent getting a 100% working XP, some things are not changed from 98.


If you dont believe that 98>XP upgrade doesnt cause problems, take a little poll and see how many people have had problems when upgrading compared to when they did a fresh install.

[acal3000]

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I'm agree with dabhand in my experience upgrading OS I have seen horrible things when you upgrade over the previous operating system and partition without format first That is whal I always do. All what he said is true

[DABhand]

Cheers acal you knew it makes sense

[Warlock]

I agree with DABhand as well. You also may have to Upgrade the PC"s RAM depending on what its currently using. XP is very RAM hungry compaired to 98 and wont run correctly if it doesnt have enough.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Upgrading the operating system? Well, just install the new version over the old one; or install the new version to another partition and copy the configuration files of all applications from the old partition to the new one...

Oh, we're talking about Windows, not Linux? Sorry, no luck then, you'll have to start again and reinstall and reconfigure all applications until you get back to your favorite environment. Annoyed? Thank Micro$oft!