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Thread ID: 49910 2004-10-04 21:52:00 Upgrade NT to XP Pro - Any known problems Muzz (1286) Press F1
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278280 2004-10-04 21:52:00 I am about to upgrade a PC running NT to XP Pro. Does anyone know of any issues with this.
Because of the programs already installed I would rather not do a clean install at this time.
Muzz (1286)
278281 2004-10-04 22:12:00 What apps / hardware is it running on?! Chilling_Silence (9)
278282 2004-10-04 23:20:00 Office 97, Outlook several industry related programs eg EPC which run on XP OK, Explorer 6, Citrix Client. Also configered for running several remote server applications via a Network connection.

Hardware is PIII with 256 Ram
Muzz (1286)
278283 2004-10-06 02:21:00 Most NT software will work with XP, but because NT has no generic USB support (there is a driver from Dell), Software written for NT has no USB support.

NT primary partition has to be NTFS or Fat, there is a driver which enables NT to operate Fat32 partitions, but the active primary has to be NTFS or Fat.
The Fat format is limited to a partition of 2gigs.

XP supports NTFS & Fat32.
I suggest that you do a double boot, keep the NT system to use while you develop the XP. Once you have XP running with all software installed, you can remove the NT.
You need a fairly big hard drive. What size does your Bios support? 256meg Ram is fine.
Mzee (158)
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