Bruce Chambers said:
Have you made sure that your PC's hardware components are capable
of supporting WinXP? This information will be found at the PC's
manufacturer's web site, and on Microsoft's Windows Catalog:
(
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/default.mspx) Additionally, run
Microsoft WinXP Upgrade Advisor to see if you have any incompatible
hardware components or applications.
You should, before proceeding, take a few minutes to ensure that
there are WinXP device drivers available for all of the machine's
components. There may not be, if the PC was specifically designed for
Win98/Me. Also bear in mind that PCs designed for, sold and run fine
with Win9x/Me very often do not meet WinXP's much more stringent
hardware quality requirements. This is particularly true of many
models in Compaq's consumer-class Presario product line or HP's
consumer-class Pavilion product line. WinXP, like WinNT and Win2K
before it, is quite sensitive to borderline defective or substandard
hardware (particularly motherboards, RAM and hard drives) that will
still support Win9x.
HOW TO Prepare to Upgrade Win98 or WinMe
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316639
Upgrading to Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm
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Thanks for the info,everyone!!
I am using a pc that is currently running with an XP Pro OS ,but, the C:
Drive is quite small at ONLY 6gig. I dismantled two older computers, taking
out the C: Drives. One is an 8gig with Windows98 and the other is a 40gig
with Windows2000/ME. I am basically trying to learn a bit more about
computers and thought I would try reformatting the 8gig Win98 (just in case I
mess something up I won't be at too much of a loss). I want to completely
clean it out and install WindowsXP Hom Edition(it's the only OS cd that I
have). If all goes well then I'll do the same with the 40gig WinME. -all as
a learning process as well as getting away from this rediculous 6gig!!!
No need to suggest using a slave drive for more space. Both drives are
already cluttered up with junk and want to start fresh, and also I am quite
fond of XP anyway. Now I would like to learn about cleaning out unwanted
files from registry before I clean everything up, but that will come later.
As for my pc hardware supporting an XP OS, I should be ok, right? Since
the original drive is running XP Pro anyway. I have the XP Home Edition cd
and that is all I'll need, correct? I sure wish I had an XP Pro cd..but I
hear those are quite expensive!! Also,and eventhough I haven't tried yet, I
think I know how to change BIOS to boot from CD ROM if needed.
At the risk of proving my ignorance even more, I am still a bit unsure
about all this "backing up files" to cd's ( or does this need to be saved to
floppy diskette?). What exactly should I be backing up? My thoughts were
that all the data needed will be on the XP cd ,and that the OS would "auto
install" drivers. I do know that when I switched out C: Drives a few times
before and booted up it went through an "installing best drivers for this
device" process. All I had to do was insert the cd for my modem during all of
that.
I know, you're probably shaking your head and wondering why I'm here and
not reading up on the sites you have supplied to me. I guess at my stage
reading that stuff is like reading gibberish. I'll go to one site and read up
and think hey, that doesn't seem too difficult. Then the next site I go to
and read I'm thinking "WHAT?"
Anyway, thanks for all your time and all info is appreciated!!
-Jake
