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| 135055 | 2003-04-11 12:47:00 | Hi guys,I have an older Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS,Win98,AMD K6 300(I think),64M ram,4G hard drive,(over half free)and was thinking of putting XP on it as a duel boot,so I can have a play with it.I know it is a bit below spec,but was wondering if anyone had tried XP on anything that low,and if it did still work.It is more just to play with XP and learn a bit about that OS than needing to upgrade.Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Peter |
Peter Coleman (597) | ||
| 135056 | 2003-04-11 13:58:00 | Technically it *might* run. The 300 meg chip is about the lower limit. I would be a bit concerned at the HDD space though, wouldnt leave much. The 64 Meg of RAM is of even greater concern. Runs "ok" on 128, but you may have installation problems with the low specs. Win XP has a "compatability checker" that would be worth running, it would alert you to any terminal problems. You would get plenty of time for a few coffees as it did any tasks I suspect. I think MS orignally advised 64 Meg as the requirement but later upped it to 128. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 135057 | 2003-04-11 14:35:00 | Hehe... Godfather is right... I've got an older Pentium II 300 laptop (Acer) and just for a laugh, installed XP Pro onto it... Installed fine... took ages to get done though, but once all set up and eye candy turned off, it worked fine. Now, it's running 98SE as XP was a bit much for it for day to day stuff. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 135058 | 2003-04-11 22:39:00 | Yeah, I think Godfather is right, however up until yesterday (I got RedHat 9) I had Windows XP Pro on my Dell 266Mhz with 64MB RAM and a 3.8 gig HDD. Ran fine, the eye candy would slow it down a little, but it overall did 'alright'. Obviously the PC could have done faster had it been running Win98, but it did pretty good. Installation for WinXP is 900MB I think - so you should be peachy, however I'd recommend partitioning it fully, rather than installing XP and Win98 on the same drive (Although Ive done it before - its usually easier to partition it if you can!). Id say go for it! Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 135059 | 2003-04-12 00:56:00 | I recommend also downloading xp-antispy and using that to disable several memory hungry services: www.xp-antispy.de For more info on services and what you can and cannot disable go here: www.blackviper.com |
b1naryb0y (3) | ||
| 135060 | 2003-04-12 03:03:00 | The advertised minimum hardware usually is what the OS will "run" in. It does not cover the requirements for anything which might perform "work". :D At worst it will fill the disk. If you've got a bootable DOS floppy, you should be able to fix that. ]:) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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