Fresh install of XP Home Upgrade using Win 98 SE Upgrade

[David C.]

I have a PC on which I did a fresh install of Win 98 SE Upgrade
by just inserting my Win 95b CD-ROM disk when prompted.

I recently purchased Win XP Home Upgrade. I plan to
format my HDD and start fresh. Will I be able to do a fresh
install of XP without installing Win 98 SE first? I would
prefer to not have any remnants of Win 98 on my HDD.

Thanks.

 

[purplehaz]

Yes.

 

[Malke]

Yes.

But let me just add that a computer designed for Windows 95 is probably
not going to run Windowx XP very well - the hardware will just be too
old, the cpu not powerful enough, not enough RAM, the hard drive may be
too small, etc. Suggest you download and run the XP Upgrade Advisor
from Microsoft's site first.

Malke

 

[Steve C. Ray]

He is running 98SE; he used the 95 CD for a qualifying disk.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a PC on which I did a fresh install of Win 98 SE Upgrade
by just inserting my Win 95b CD-ROM disk when prompted.

I recently purchased Win XP Home Upgrade. I plan to
format my HDD and start fresh. Will I be able to do a fresh
install of XP without installing Win 98 SE first? I would
prefer to not have any remnants of Win 98 on my HDD.

You can do it in the same way - after booting the XP CD direct. Enter
Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install. When it asks
you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the current partition
and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next stage. THen show it
the 'previous system CD' as evidence (either will do, although you
cannot actually do an upgrade over Win98.

But I would suggest an upgrade install in the first instance - run the
XP CD from the existing Win98. The systems differ so much that this
essentially replaces the 98, but does retain installed programs and data
and may manage to bring over win98 drivers for some hardware where there
are no XP native ones.

Be sure first that the machine is adequate - most machines that
originally ran win95 are not. Unless you have *more* than the
'recommended 128 MB RAM (you can just scrape by on 192, but 256 is
better) and a 400MHz CPU, with about 3GB disk space currently free (or
about a 10 GB minimum hard disk) I would stick at Win98