clean upgrade to xp from 98

[Joe Costantini]

I have a windows 98 machine with two hard drives (9G primary, 40G
secondary). The second hard drive has two partitions, one to win98,
one unused.

I want to install XP on the unused partition, in a dual boot fashion.

Then I would like to install applications in XP, and copy any data,
configurations, etc, for those applications from the win98 partitions
to the XP OS.

Finally, I would like to remove the 9G hard drive.

Is this doable? Is it a good plan for installing XP? Has anyone done
this?

All comments are appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Joe Costantini

 

[Andrew E]

Microsoft recommends each OS be put on seperate disks,
not seperate partitions,dont remove the 9mb drive,set
it to use as a page file for xp.Theres not much xp needs
from 98,about the only thing youd miss from upgradeing
is java virtual machine.That you might!