upgrade from win98se to xp home using full oem version

[Shirley]

New computer comes with xp home. Need programs and data
from win98se computer. What is the best way to do this?
Without having to reinstall all the programs. Some of the
program disks are bad and can't be repurchased. Tried
putting the xp disk in the drive while win98se was
running. It ask me if I wanted to install it, I said yes.
When it was done it said the install was corrupt and will
only let me boot into win98se. Thanks

 

[Ken Blake]

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New computer comes with xp home. Need programs and data
from win98se computer. What is the best way to do this?
Without having to reinstall all the programs.

Moving data is easy. You can do it using any media big enough to
hold the files, diskettes, CDs, tape, etc. Or network the
computers and transfer them over the network. You can even E-mail
them to yourself, and read them at the XP computer.

But you're basically out of luck when it comes to moving
programs. Programs have many references to themselves all over
the hard drive, in the registry and elsewhere. For that reason
they can't be moved from one computer to another, and have to be
reinstalled.

There is an occasional very small program that may be
self-contained and movable, but that's rare enough that it is
unlikely to help you.

Some of the
program disks are bad and can't be repurchased.

You'll either have to try finding used copies somewhere (eBay?),
do without these programs, or continue running them on the
Windows 98 computer.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

An OEM version of XP cannot do an upgrade and cannot be forced into doing
one. Also if you purchased a computer with XP preinstalled and you are
trying to use the OEM version installed on the new system then
1) you are illegally trying to install XP because OEM versions are legally
tied to the first system they are installed on and even removing them from
that first system still makes it illegal to install to another system
2) some OEM versions are tied to the BIOS of the system they are
preinstalled on making it impossible to install them on another system.

 

[SHIRLEY]

Thanks you just confirmed what I already knew. I was just
hopeing that someone had found a way around it. Thanks
Shirley

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Shirley,

A rock and a hard place you are stuck between......

The software must be installed on the new system from the original
installation media, you canot simply copy over the program folders. There is
no way around this.

An OEM version generally will not do an upgrade, this is why you keep
winding up where you started at. Either get a separate retail upgrade
version, or see about replacing your program installation media.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Alex Nichol]

New computer comes with xp home. Need programs and data
from win98se computer. What is the best way to do this?
Without having to reinstall all the programs. Some of the
program disks are bad and can't be repurchased. Tried
putting the xp disk in the drive while win98se was
running. It ask me if I wanted to install it, I said yes.
When it was done it said the install was corrupt and will
only let me boot into win98se.

If you mean the 'OEM' you have in the subject, that will *only* install
clean, with no earlier version of windows present