• Upgrade options to XP

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    #361986

    I intend to move to XP home edition at some point in the near future. I have 98SE on my PC at the moment.
    If I purchase XP Home upgrade can I install XP alongside 98SE and select OS on boot?

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    • #548801

      Yes, if you have a spare partition or a second hard drive. This is call “Dual” booting. If you plan on only one 9x version of Windows and XP you can use the NTLoader that comes with XP to control the dual booting.

      DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
      Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

      • #548850

        Hi
        This answer is more than you need, but I put it here for other readers as well.

    • #548955

      I have W2k OEM on an original hd, and XP-RC1 on a separate hd. Need to keep the W2k OEM for warranty purposes. Would like to load XPP Full ver on top of the RC1 to keep preferences. Will this work?

      • #548956

        MS say that it will work, but I have NOT tried it. I have not seen any intructions on doing a upgrade on a drive other that “C”. So when you select “Upgrade” make sure that you can tell setup wizard which drive you want to use.

        DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
        Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

        • #548957

          Thanks Dave. When I setup the RC1, had plenty of warning about which hd to use. So I assume the Full ver will recognize what is there, and offer some options. Do not want to reformat the 40g hd, just load on top.

    • #548998

      What does this mean “Upgrade is not available on the OEM/full distribution”? Do you mean that if I have Win2000 OEM on one of my computers, I can’t upgrade it to Windows XP Pro?

      Fafner

    • #549004

      Thank you for this information. What kind of problems might I anticipate? I have run the upgrade advisor software, which tells me I will have problems with Adaptec (now Roxio) Easy CD Creator 4 and Direct CD and with Norton AV 2000. My impression is that if I fix these drivers first my upgrade should go cleanly. Anything else I should look out for? (The only applications of any importance that I am running on this machine is Office 2000. Everything else is expendable.)

      Fafner

    • #550815

      Call me a ludite if you wish – but “best installation experience of any Microsoft OS to date” ??

      As an experiment I’ve installed Win311 (after copying the installation disks into one directory) on a Athlon 1Gb pc. It installs in under 2 minutes and requires about 10 keypresses and 6 mouse clicks. It loads in less than 3 seconds from the dos prompt. However, if I wanted to install drivers for the video card, nic, printer etc I’d be up the well known creek – such things are not available!!!

      For info – not a troll.

      Jim

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