catpuke said:
i have a registered copy of win98 and xp home (oem)
Congrats.
i put together a computer from new parts (including an unformatted
hard drive)
Again - congrats.
the new computer (a pentium 4) wouldn't let me install windows 98,
even though reps at microsoft siad i should be able to--as far as i
can see, it's impossible to install windows 98 on a pentium 4
False - you can install Windows 98 on a P4 with no problem. What issues did
it give you? What boot diskette were you using - or is that the problem,
you have no diskette drive on this new system? heh
i put the oem xp home on the second computer
Where did this "second computer" come from? Is this the new computer
mentioned above or is this a computer you already owned? Why didn't you
install Windows XP on the new computer *if* the second computer is in fact
one you already owned? It will probably run better on a newer PC anyway.
microsoft hijacked the original computer till i got a legal 2nd copy
of xp--they said i should install win98 on it, then install a legal
upgrade
How did they do that? Is the "original computer" the old or the new one?
This is very confusing, so I am going to make an assumption and stick with
it. Going by just your storyline, the "second computer" is the New computer
in this story. The "original computer" is the PC you had before getting the
new PC mentioned earlier in this post. You can correct me later if I am
wrong.
So you say someone told you to install Windows 98 on a computer then upgrade
to Windows XP upgrade? Wow - someone is pulling your leg. You can do a
clean install of even an Upgrade copy of Windows XP, as long as you have the
media for the older version of the OS you are upgrading. It will boot from
the XP Upgrade CD (or 6 floppies if the PC is that decrepit) and at some
point during the install, ask you for the qualifying media that allows you
to use this upgrade version. You "show it" your qualifying media, and it
moves on, happy as a lark.
i bought a copy of xp pro upgrade
i tried to install it over the xp home
not enough memory on the 40g hard drive
Not enough "memory"? Going by the way you are talking, memory is not the
problem - but hard drive space? This story must have taken place over a
longer timeframe than I thought if you filled up a freshly installed XP Home
system with 40GB of data. heh In any case, I can see where that could
happen. Some of that HAS to be data - burn some off to CD or copy off to a
network location. If you can free up 5GB of space, you have MORE than
enough to upgrade.
so i added an 80g hard drive
Well, that would be better than copying to a CD or a network location I
suppose. Can you format this secondary drive in Windows XP Home and then
copy your data files (again - 40GB - some has to be files you
created/downloaded) to the 80GB drive?
still no go-----is there an easy way to transfer the system to the
80g drife F: from the 40g drive C: ??????
Well, okay - so you want to replace the 40GB drive with the 80GB drive now?
Some drives you purchase come with a utility to do just what you are looking
for. Although - in your case with a 100% full 40GB drive, it will take some
time. Otherwise you can purchase an application like Symantec Ghost to copy
the drive contents to the other.
I am still confused by the whole story. I don't know what the "original"
and "second" computers are. I don't really know what happened to the
original XP Home OEM copy (you can only install OEM copies clean, so if you
installed it on some computer with a 40GB hard drive, unless you then copied
a lot of data from another drive/network location or downloaded a lot of
stuff, that drive should still have space.)
Can you give a bit more information? Maybe label the computers Old PC and
New PC (or if more than 2, PC1, PC2, PC3 - so on. heh)
