Why Must You Install W98 Before XP??

[Setchell]

What was Microsoft thinking?

SO many people have hard drives full of data, etc. using Win98 as their OS.
You'd think the easiest way to upgrade would be to buy a new HD, install XP,
and slap your old HD in as a slave, and either uninstall Win98 or better yet
dual boot your new setup!! But no, you can't do that (except I guess with
some extra expense of a third party boot manager?)

Why can't things be simple for once??

 

[Steve C. Ray]

What makes you think you have to install 98 before installing XP? You don't
have to. You can do a clean install with the Full or Upgrade versions of XP.
Install your new drive, set your BIOS to boot from the CD first, boot from
the XP CD. You can partition and format the new drive and install XP, all
the necessary tools are on the disk. If you are using a Upgrade version it
will ask you to insert a qualifying disk, like your 98 CD. Follow on screen
prompts.

 

[Jim in Canada]

I didn't have to.

When my xp upgrade was being installed on a clean hard drive, it asked me
for my win98 disk, then proceeded with a clean install.

Have a nice day!
Jim

 

[Knoj]

What was Microsoft thinking?

SO many people have hard drives full of data, etc. using Win98 as
their OS. You'd think the easiest way to upgrade would be to buy a new
HD, install XP, and slap your old HD in as a slave, and either
uninstall Win98 or better yet dual boot your new setup!! But no, you
can't do that (except I guess with some extra expense of a third party
boot manager?)

Why can't things be simple for once??

I don't get what your after? You don't have to install 98 to install XP.
You can dual boot 98 and XP. And you can put xp on one drive and then pull
your info off the other drive. Everything your assuming can't be done in
you post really can be done. And most if not all doesn't need any expensive
3rd party software.

If you want help on how to do it, ask. People are willing to help.

 

[Michael Stevens]

What was Microsoft thinking?

SO many people have hard drives full of data, etc. using Win98 as
their OS. You'd think the easiest way to upgrade would be to buy a
new HD, install XP, and slap your old HD in as a slave, and either
uninstall Win98 or better yet dual boot your new setup!! But no, you
can't do that (except I guess with some extra expense of a third
party boot manager?)

Why can't things be simple for once??

Retail XP versions can upgrade over 98/Me, OEM XP versions cannot.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#can3

Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
For upgrading to XP Home or Pro, see the links below.
http://aumha.org/a/xpupgrad.htm
XP Upgrade
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_2kupgrade.asp
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_9xupgrade.asp
See the link below for steps on performing a Clean Install.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Known problems with XP upgrades.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpupgdissues.html
Known Problems with Clean installs.
http://www.labmice.net/WindowsXP/Install/installbugs.htm
Top 10 Reasons for Moving to Windows XP Professional
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/top10.asp
Why Windows XP Professional?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/default.asp
Windows XP Professional Features
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/features.asp

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[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

It can be done. It's just that YOU don't know how to do it. (-:

 

[Alex Nichol]

SO many people have hard drives full of data, etc. using Win98 as their OS.
You'd think the easiest way to upgrade would be to buy a new HD, installXP,
and slap your old HD in as a slave, and either uninstall Win98 or betteryet
dual boot your new setup!! But no, you can't do that (except I guess with
some extra expense of a third party boot manager?)

They provide Update as a means of installation, which works well.

Or you can install a dual boot into a different drive.

What was not provided for was the small number of people who do not plan
ahead. The methods of booting the two systems are different, and while
it is easy to add an existing system in when you setup the later one,
the reverse would mean the Win98 install being able to anticipate the
needs of a system that had not yet been written.

You can often do an after the event install for 98 using Doug Knox's
method at
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

 

[Setchell]

I (unfortunately as it turned out) bought an OEM version of XP. And from
posts earlier this month (see "Re: XP/98 Dual Boot---possible to keep XP the
"C" drive? on 9/17/03), the advice seemed to be: buy third party software.
I'll read Doug Knox's site for advice, thanks. I really only wanted add my
old C drive with 98 on as a slave after the clean install of XP (my old hard
drive has only one partition so I'm assuming it would get changed to "D", as
in the post cited above).

SO many people have hard drives full of data, etc. using Win98 as their OS.
You'd think the easiest way to upgrade would be to buy a new HD, install XP,
and slap your old HD in as a slave, and either uninstall Win98 or better yet
dual boot your new setup!! But no, you can't do that (except I guess with
some extra expense of a third party boot manager?)

They provide Update as a means of installation, which works well.

Or you can install a dual boot into a different drive.

What was not provided for was the small number of people who do not plan
ahead. The methods of booting the two systems are different, and while
it is easy to add an existing system in when you setup the later one,
the reverse would mean the Win98 install being able to anticipate the
needs of a system that had not yet been written.

You can often do an after the event install for 98 using Doug Knox's
method at
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

I guess they were thinking that people would read the installation
instructions before installing the OS.

Bruce Chambers

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