WinXp upgrade question

[Guest]

Can I safely purchase WinXp home Upgrade to upgrade my daughters
computer from her previous Win95 to Win98SE upgrade?

I have asked the Salespeople in stores but they give me conflicting
answers.

Thanks for any help
Arvid

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows XP will upgrade over an existing Windows 98SE installation
provided your computer meets the minimum hardware requirements.

Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade Center
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/default.mspx

How Do I Use the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/advisor.mspx

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Home Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

How to Get Windows XP Home Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/default.mspx

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade With Service Pack 2
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3327608

How to prepare to upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316639

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| Can I safely purchase WinXp home Upgrade to upgrade my daughters
| computer from her previous Win95 to Win98SE upgrade?
|
| I have asked the Salespeople in stores but they give me conflicting
| answers.
|
| Thanks for any help
| Arvid

 

[RonK]

If that computer originally had Win95 on it, it may be too slow to run XP.
What are the specs - cpu, memory etc.

 

[Guest]

She has been upgraded a couple yrs back to Celeron 1.7ghz w/ 512RAM.
She has a 60Gig Hard drive and Nvidia Video.. a Audigy sound card.

I was just wondering if the fact that it already had a upgradeOS that XP
wouldn't
recognize the upgrade.. but would only recognize a fullprevious install.

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hello Arvid,

As Carey mentioned, the upgrade should be fine. Your computer's specifications also surpass the
minimum requirements needed for an XP install.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Can I safely purchase WinXp home Upgrade to upgrade my daughters
computer from her previous Win95 to Win98SE upgrade?

Theoretically, yes, you can. However, with a PC so old as to have had
Win95 on it, You need to ensure that it meets or exceeds the minimum
hardware requirements and that it's fully compatible. To be honest, the
odds are against you.

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


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[bumtracks]

She has been upgraded a couple yrs back to Celeron 1.7ghz w/ 512RAM.
She has a 60Gig Hard drive and Nvidia Video.. a Audigy sound card.

I was just wondering if the fact that it already had a upgradeOS that XP
wouldn't
recognize the upgrade.. but would only recognize a fullprevious install.

It'll work. Maybe look for and upgrade the BIOS if its avail and then boot
from winXP-upgrade CD and it will offer upgrade existing or formal/install
new, which is smallest and makes for a nice clean install.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

She has been upgraded a couple yrs back to Celeron 1.7ghz w/
512RAM.
She has a 60Gig Hard drive and Nvidia Video.. a Audigy sound
card.

I was just wondering if the fact that it already had a
upgradeOS that
XP wouldn't
recognize the upgrade.. but would only recognize a fullprevious
install.

Yes, you can use the XP upgrade CD. The fact that she upgraded
from 95 to 98SE is irrelevant. In fact, in general the
installation CD can't even tell whether what it's upgrading got
there via an upgrade or a clean installation.

 

[Uncle Joe]

Avid responded to an earlier post in this thread with this:

"She has been upgraded a couple yrs back to Celeron 1.7ghz w/ 512RAM.
She has a 60Gig Hard drive and Nvidia Video.. a Audigy sound card."

That's plenty for an XP upgrade. Not ideal but will work okay.

Saw the strangest thing in CompUSA yesterday. It was a
Microsoft-branded XP Professional upgrade for users of
Windows 95 only. The store had six copies of the package.
Wouldn't think there would be many takers for the upgrade.
The typical Win95 configuration wouldn't be able to even
begin to support XP Pro.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Just to be clear:

Yes, no problem.

You may also use a retail Win98 upgrade CD as "qualifying media" to perform
a clean installation of XP. (That's what I have used, although mine is for
98 gold, rather than 98se.)


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

She has been upgraded a couple yrs back to Celeron 1.7ghz w/ 512RAM.
She has a 60Gig Hard drive and Nvidia Video.. a Audigy sound card.

I was just wondering if the fact that it already had a upgradeOS that XP
wouldn't
recognize the upgrade.. but would only recognize a fullprevious install.

(snip)

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Avid responded to an earlier post in this thread with this:

"She has been upgraded a couple yrs back to Celeron 1.7ghz w/ 512RAM.
She has a 60Gig Hard drive and Nvidia Video.. a Audigy sound card."

Yes, but at the time I responded to his original post, I had no way of
knowing that.

That's plenty for an XP upgrade. Not ideal but will work okay.

You're quite possibly correct. However, the mere numbers are, in and
of themselves, quite meaningless. If the system's components' *quality*
isn't up to WinXP's standards, all of the RAM and CPU cycles in the
world won't help. The OP needs to check for compatibility, as well as
meet minimum requirements.


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[Lil' Dave]

It was more than an upgrade, the power supply was probably replaced as well
to support the motherboard, and the motherboard to support the cpu.
Basically, only the case remains from the original PC.
Hardware-wise, for all intents and purposes, this is another PC compared to
the original.

 

[Harry Monster]

Saw the strangest thing in CompUSA yesterday. It was a
Microsoft-branded XP Professional upgrade for users of
Windows 95 only.

A local bookstore still stocks "HowTo" books on Windows 3.1. You have
to wonder where the staff spends their time. Not keeping up with the
times, f'sure!