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| 543410 | 2007-04-23 03:13:00 | I want to install Windows XP Home Edition and would like advice on the best procedure. I thought I'd do an upgrade from Windows 98SE and if there were problems I'd do a clean install and reinstall the programs I use. Does this make good sense? Some say to get updated drivers for the installed programs before installing XP, and others say XP will probably have the drivers for the older programs I am running. Any suggestions would be welcome System: Intel Pentium III 600 megahertz / Windows 98 SE/ ATAPI CD-R/RW 6X4X32 [CD-ROM drive] 256 Megabytes Installed Memory/ 80 GB Hard drive/ WinFast 3D S325 Display Adapter/ Conexant SoftK56 Data,Fax,RTAD PCI Modem/ Creative Soundblaster SB Live Version 1.6 |
Krad (7878) | ||
| 543411 | 2007-04-23 03:20:00 | partition the drive and install xp onto the second partition it'll automatically give you dual boot capability then and you'll get the best of both worlds .......as for 'drivers for programs'....theres not really any such thing......it's drivers for HARDWARE.........anyway with only a 600Mhz cpu it's not going to love xp.... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 543412 | 2007-04-23 03:38:00 | And not really enough RAM for XP to prosper either.....it'll work..but be crippled by writing and re-writing to RAM and using a lot of pagefile area in the hdd too. The pagefile area is a real bottleneck...the hdd is so slow in comparison to a volatile memory like the RAM. But then again, the RAM is kinda small so it's gonna be a bottleneck too.:waughh: It's like re arraigning the deck chairs on the Titanic. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 543413 | 2007-04-23 05:02:00 | I have a 566MHz processor in an older PC and XP runs fine - on 192MB of RAM as well. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 543414 | 2007-04-23 05:03:00 | Upgrading means you keep all your programs & settings etc but it's not Ideal because you get a lot of left over baggage and a greater chance of Instability. As others have said your machine is a little underpowered for XP - you might be better off sticking to 98, but if you're sure you want to I'd recommend either the dual boot option as suggested allready or a clean Install. for a clean install this is what I'd do ( others may have more suggestions ) 1. go through your start menu and write down all the programs you want to keep, then make sure you have the installers - check for compatabilty with XP or newer versions 2. write down or export your address book, back up your favourites 3. check to see if there are XP drivers for your hardware, you could look in device manager to see what is installed - the important ones are video, sound, modem, etc 4. go through your boot drive one directory at a time and make sure you have backed up or moved any files you wish to keep. 5.boot of an XP cd, re-format or re-partition your boot drive and do a clean install. If you're prepared it should take only 1-2 hours |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 543415 | 2007-04-23 10:33:00 | Got a 700 Mhz laptop with 128MB of RAM running XP Professional. Boot up is a tad slow:D but otherwise its fine. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 543416 | 2007-04-23 21:14:00 | If you want, I can test XP on another 566MHz processor - with only 64MB of RAM! :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 543417 | 2007-04-23 22:11:00 | as per your PM here's some instructions but It will delete your hdd and if you fail then it will be unusable, I make no promises as to exact details. Read it all before starting. 1. first make a statup floppy from win 98, then make sure you can boot off it and access the CDROM drive - type the drive letter eg D: then DIR to get a file list to prove you see the CD - obviously You'll need one in the drive 2. type A: to go back to floppy 3. Type FDISK to run 98SE's partiton program (if it's not in there you can search C: from windows and copy it across - make sure the format.com is on A: as well) 4. No going back after this step 5. use the option to display partiton information to see whats on your hdd 6. delete existing partitions 7. create primary dos partition ( will become C: drive) depending on your hdd size go for say 10-20G for each version of windows, or at least 2G for 98 & 5G for XP 8.exit fdisk - reboot pc from floppy again - type format c: - change to CDROM drive e.g D: - type setup ( with win98 cd in drive ) - install win98 9. boot off XP CD ( if your machine can't do this then I'm not sure ) choose the option to install on / create a new partion - 10-20G would be a good size 10. carry on and install XP on new partiton 1 1. re-boot (not from CD) - should see a menu asking which os to boot 12. from XP control panel administration tools - disk management - create a partiton in remaining HDD space and format it You now have 3 partitions. win98, winXP, data / programs etc Notes: a note about formats - if you format using NTFS then win98 will not be able to read the drive, if you use FAT32 both windows will read it fine, but XP will limit the max size of a FAT32 partiton to (I think) 32G, curiously if you want a larger partition then FDISK / Format from 98 will do it, and XP will happily use it and install on it. As an alternative to above steps you can create & format all 3 partitons from the 98 boot bisk, and then install windows - always install 98 first and then XP so that XP will create a boot menu for you, never choose the C: drive for XP or you'll run the risk of overwriting 98 and although you can have 2 copies of windows on one partition it's not a good Idea If asked to enable large disk support - choose yes |
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