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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Upgrade options to XP
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DaveA
AskWoody_MVPOctober 26, 2001 at 3:08 pm #548801Yes, 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
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DaveA
AskWoody_MVPOctober 27, 2001 at 4:23 pm #548956MS 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
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AskWoody LoungerOctober 28, 2001 at 12:17 pm #549004Thank 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
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WStecho_ruyton
AskWoody LoungerNovember 8, 2001 at 1:25 am #550815Call 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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