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| 52063 | 2002-06-02 06:57:00 | The time has come for me to change from Win95 to a later O/S. I favour Win2000 because this will match my laptop and make some aspects of my working life easier. However is it possible to simply upgrade by installing Win2000 over the old Win95 or do I need to completely reformat the hard drive before installing Win2000? (after having backed up everything that is. Why have I left it so long and kept Win95, well it worked quite well and I work on the lines of if it ain't broke why fix it! Now the Norton 2000 is nearing the end of it's update life the new versions will not work with Win95, so a change has to be made. Any comments or tips would be welcome. Regards Alan Farmer |
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| 52064 | 2002-06-02 07:18:00 | about many microsoft s/w's you have to try it out b4 u really know. I bought a academic win2k upgrade cd which mentions I need to do upgrade only. While I tried this in DOS after formatting it worked! So really u have to try out. If that way doesnt work do it the other way. eg. if upgrade not work then do a full install. Make sure ur version of norton AV works in win2k. win95 version of mcafee would not work in win2k. RC |
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| 52065 | 2002-06-02 08:58:00 | i meant NAV not mcafee ... | Guest (0) | ||
| 52066 | 2002-06-02 10:25:00 | You get the green light in the box www.microsoft.com While installing W2k will tell you what is incompatible before you install - so you may have issues to look at prior to carrying on an install. |
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| 52067 | 2002-06-02 10:36:00 | You might wanna do some more research if ur gonna upgrade to w2k like the software and hardware side of things. Like the hardware side is minimum req. of w2k is pentium 133cpu 64mb ram and 2gb hdd space with 650MB of hdd free space..and if u got other apps running ok in win95, it might not work in w2k...my suggestion is make a backup of ur w95 (like a ghost image of it in a different hdd), so if things go wrong u can install it back quickly, in no time. Jim Q. |
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| 52068 | 2002-06-02 10:38:00 | You might wanna do some more research if ur gonna upgrade to w2k like the software and hardware side of things. Like the hardware side is minimum req. of w2k is pentium 133cpu 64mb ram and 2gb hdd space with 650MB of hdd free space..and if u got other apps running ok in win95, it might not work in w2k...my suggestion is make a backup of ur w95 (like a ghost image of it in a different hdd), so if things go wrong u can install it back quickly, in no time. Jim Q. |
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| 52069 | 2002-06-03 12:06:00 | Caution... make sure your hardware can handle it! Each version of Windows requires more and more resources. | Guest (0) | ||
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