Windows XP upgrade from 98SE

[David]

Performance has degraded rapidly on my Windows 98SE PC
after reloading 98SE to fix another problem. The BIOS
only recognizes my original, very small (4 GB) hard drive
and not my newer, larger hard drive. I have a little
under 1 GB free and the OS takes up 1.3 GB. Question:
when Microsoft says you need 1.5 GB available is that
totally free space or does that include the space already
taken up by the old OS?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

That's about normal for an XP install. If you choose to backup your old OS, then that number will likely increase.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

A typical install of XP will take about 1.5GB. Space required goes up from
there. For example XP will automatically allocated 1.5X your physical RAM
for the pagefile. So if you have 512MB RAM a pagefile of approx 768MB will
be created. It will also allocated 1X your physical RAM for Hibernation. So
with just these two files you can see how the necessary space increases
dramatically. System Restore will also take a minimum of 200 MB if it is
enabled. The pagefile size can be reduced and you can turn off Hibernation
and System Restore to save space.

When you say performance has degraded what do you mean by that? If your
system can't recognize your newer drive it might be that it doesn't meet the
minimum requirements to run XP.

 

[Rifleman]

A typical install of XP will take about 1.5GB.

Eh? My XP pro INCLUDING all the patches is 1.12 GB.

 

[David]

When I said that the performance has degraded and
mentioned the hard drive issue I meant that a physical
hard drive that I had installed (and was working just fine
for several months) was no longer recognized as the
secondary hard drive after a recent reinstall of Windows
98 SE. The reinstall was recommended as a potential fix
for an Internet Explorer problem I was having (not
recognizing the TCP/IP). I hoped that upgrading to XP
would fix both the TCP/IP issue as well as fixing the BIOS
so that my secondary hard drive would be recognized.
Since that time I've also come to realize that neither my
CD-ROM nor my CD-RW recognizes a blank CD (*:\ is not
accessible. The device is not ready) although both
recognize recorded CDs. I found this out when I went to
back up my data before the XP upgrade (which I still
haven't done since I'm having problems creating 1.5 GB of
free space on my 4 GB hard drive). Any help fixing any or
all of these issues would be greatly appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
A typical install of XP will take about 1.5GB. Space required goes up from
there. For example XP will automatically allocated 1.5X your physical RAM
for the pagefile. So if you have 512MB RAM a pagefile of approx 768MB will
be created. It will also allocated 1X your physical RAM for Hibernation. So
with just these two files you can see how the necessary space increases
dramatically. System Restore will also take a minimum of 200 MB if it is
enabled. The pagefile size can be reduced and you can turn off Hibernation
and System Restore to save space.

When you say performance has degraded what do you mean by that? If your
system can't recognize your newer drive it might be that it doesn't meet the
minimum requirements to run XP.
--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Performance has degraded rapidly on my Windows 98SE PC
after reloading 98SE to fix another problem. The BIOS
only recognizes my original, very small (4 GB) hard drive
and not my newer, larger hard drive. I have a little
under 1 GB free and the OS takes up 1.3 GB. Question:
when Microsoft says you need 1.5 GB available is that
totally free space or does that include the space already
taken up by the old OS?

.

 

[David]

-----Original Message-----


Eh? My XP pro INCLUDING all the patches is 1.12 GB.


.
Was this a full install or a customized install?

 

[Rifleman]

Full install.