Win ME to XP

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Bill Saxon

I am upgrading from ME to XP. I hope I will find it more stable. It
would be much, much easier to just reinstall without re-formatting the
hard drive and starting over in reinstalling drivers, hardware and all
the applications. I am not sure I even have all the cds needed.

How successful is a straight conversion from ME to XP?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bill
 
I could only tell you the best thing I ever did was upgrade to XP from Me.
My system runs rock solid..

XP recognized nearly every piece of equipment I had - no need at all for any
original disks. I did have Microsoft walk me thru a format since I wanted
the newer filing system - NTFS.

You will need to reinstall every one of your regular programs... like Word,
etc..

And either way you should back up your files... My Docs, etc...

If there is any way you can start clean- I suggest you do...
 
Same here. No problems.......

Uncle Vinnie said:
I could only tell you the best thing I ever did was upgrade to XP from Me.
My system runs rock solid..

XP recognized nearly every piece of equipment I had - no need at all for any
original disks. I did have Microsoft walk me thru a format since I wanted
the newer filing system - NTFS.

You will need to reinstall every one of your regular programs... like Word,
etc..

And either way you should back up your files... My Docs, etc...

If there is any way you can start clean- I suggest you do...
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Greetings --

Some people will recommend that you perform a clean installation,
rather than upgrade over an earlier OS. For the most part, I feel
that these people, while well-meaning, are living in the past, and are
basing their recommendation on their experiences with older operating
systems. You'd probably save a lot of time by upgrading your PC to
WinXP, rather than performing a clean installation, if you've no
hardware or software incompatibilities. Microsoft has greatly
improved (over earlier versions of Windows) WinXP's ability to
smoothly upgrade an earlier OS.

WinXP is designed to install and upgrade the existing operating
system while simultaneously preserving your applications and data, and
translating as many personalized settings as possible. The process is
designed to be, and normally is, quite painless. That said, things
can go wrong, in a small number of cases. If your data is at all
important to you, back it up before proceeding.

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


Bruce Chambers
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH
 
Bruce...

I've heard the same- XP is very good at upgrading.. unfortunately, those of
us that have upgraded in the past, still have that fear!

How is XP Upgrade at converting from Fat32 to NTFS?
 
If you are having stability problems with Me , you may have a hardware
problem that is causing this problem , or past problem. Upgrading to XP will
not fix this. XP is more sensitive to the hardware that is in your system
right now and I'm sorry to tell you that chances are that you may have more
problem than before. I would suggest that you back up your virus free files
, run the upgrade compatibility adviser and do a clean install formatting
using ntfs partition. I cannot see any benefit by leaving ME and taking up
disk space. Reverting back to a win 98 product after upgrading to XP is not
famous for being unproblematic! Saving a little time is not worth the
possible headaches a upgrade might cause. No one will claim that a upgrade
has a lesser chance of failure that a formatted new install. Good luck .
Jym
 
Greetings --

You can safely convert the partition to NTFS whenever desired,
without having to format the partition and reinstall everything. As
always when performing any serious changes, back up any important data
before proceeding, just in case. A little advance preparation is also
strongly recommended, so you can avoid any performance hits caused by
the default cluster size:

Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm


Bruce Chambers
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Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH
 
How can the upgrade that has Win 98 on it be converted to ntfs and still
have the option to revert ? Isn't this what the previous responder asked ?
Jym
 
Bruce Chambers said:
Greetings --

Some people will recommend that you perform a clean installation,
rather than upgrade over an earlier OS. For the most part, I feel
that these people, while well-meaning, are living in the past, and are
basing their recommendation on their experiences with older operating
systems. You'd probably save a lot of time by upgrading your PC to
WinXP, rather than performing a clean installation, if you've no
hardware or software incompatibilities. Microsoft has greatly
improved (over earlier versions of Windows) WinXP's ability to
smoothly upgrade an earlier OS.

WinXP is designed to install and upgrade the existing operating
system while simultaneously preserving your applications and data, and
translating as many personalized settings as possible. The process is
designed to be, and normally is, quite painless. That said, things
can go wrong, in a small number of cases. If your data is at all
important to you, back it up before proceeding.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the very comprehensive help Bruce (and all the others). Is
there any harm in doing the straight upgrade of ME and if it just
isn't satisfactory I could always redo the installation and choose to
re-format? Any pitfalls with this approach?
 
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