Upgrade from Win98 to XP Professional

[Guest]

I've just upgraded from Win 98 to Windows XP Professional. I installed XP in
a new folder as I wished to retain the old operating system in case I needed
to revert to it. The upgrade appears to have gone well, but I cannot see any
of my data or programs. This suggests a clean install to me.
Is there anyway I can recover the old data, even if it means uninstalling XP
and reverting to 98?
Thanks
Andrew

 

[Guest]

If xp was installed to another folder,it must not have installed as C:,not
good.Either way,go to my computer,98 is on a diffrent volume (disk),open
the disk,search for files,or simply try search in xp,look in other locations,
include 98.You probably can/could even boot into 98,try BIOS options.

 

[Guest]

Andrew E

Thanks very much. The data is all there! I'll worry about booting up in Win
98 later.

Andrew B.

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I've just upgraded from Win 98 to Windows XP Professional. I
installed XP in a new folder as I wished to retain the old operating
system in case I needed to revert to it. The upgrade appears to have
gone well, but I cannot see any of my data or programs. This suggests
a clean install to me.
Is there anyway I can recover the old data, even if it means
uninstalling XP and reverting to 98?
Thanks
Andrew

Unless you have the option to select 98 on boot up, it is unlikely you will
be able to retrieve anything without getting special tools or take it to
professional data retrieval specialists. If you have valuable data, you need
to recover, stop using the computer immediately.
You should have selected the upgrade option and taken the option to save the
files to return to 98.
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[Bruce Chambers]

I've just upgraded from Win 98 to Windows XP Professional. I installed XP in
a new folder as I wished to retain the old operating system in case I needed
to revert to it. The upgrade appears to have gone well, but I cannot see any
of my data or programs. This suggests a clean install to me.
Is there anyway I can recover the old data, even if it means uninstalling XP
and reverting to 98?
Thanks
Andrew

If you installed WinXP to a new folder, than you did not choose to
perform an upgrade; you selected a "new" installation. Therefore, none
of your applications will be available in WinXP until you install them.

What you did do was to create a very unstable situation. Under normal
circumstances, placing two operating systems in the same partition, as
you have done, is a recipe for disaster. A careful, knowledgeable
specialist can do this safely for a short period of time, but the
ordinary PC user had better be backing up his data hourly, as a
catastrophic failure is a matter of "when," rather than "if."

At this point, you safest course of action would be to back up your
data, boot from the WinXP CD and format the hard drive, and then perform
a clean installation of the OS.


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[Guest]

Thanks everyone for your help. I've recovered the data and learned my lesson.

Andrew