Upgrading to XP from 98

[Mark Ronald]

Hello,
I recently purchased a used Dell Workstation 210 from
someone I work with. The computer has Win 98 installed on
it, and I would like to upgrade to XP. Should I Purchase
an upgrade CD or full installation CD? I do have the Win
98 CD that is installed on the computer.
Thanks

 

[rory]

yes and yes
just get the upgrade CD boot up and incert the CD.
you may have 98 on a prewinstall form dell, some of the
older PC's dont have this so you may not have the pre
install

 

[Tim B.]

All you need is the 98 cd. You don't need the 98 operating system installed.
I recently did this. During the XP install it asked me for verification and
so I put the old 98 CD in my DVD drive and hit enter and it went ahead with
the XP install. I assume if you just have one CD drive you can swap the 98
and XP disks in and out at this step.

Tim