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So I'm finally installing Windows XP...
Posted: 2005-12-03 06:02pm
by Gandalf
After many years of Windows 98, I'm finally installing Windows XP Pro. So I have a few questions for anyone who can help.
Should I back up files I don't want to lose? Like music, pictures and the like?
If I end up installing it over the top of Win98, it it possible just to hit uninstall on Win98 to fix it?
I may have to add more as they come to me.
Posted: 2005-12-03 06:56pm
by Vendetta
Personally, I'd suggest one of two things:
1. Back up everything, repartition your drive to have two partitions, one for Win98 and one for WinXP, clean install Win98 and then clean install WinXP.
2. Back up everything, format the drive to NTFS, clean install WinXP.
Posted: 2005-12-03 06:59pm
by Gandalf
Vendetta wrote:Personally, I'd suggest one of two things:
1. Back up everything, repartition your drive to have two partitions, one for Win98 and one for WinXP, clean install Win98 and then clean install WinXP.
After doing that, would I be able to "re-merge" the partitions?
Posted: 2005-12-03 07:05pm
by Vendetta
Not without special software. Ordinarily you'd have to rip them all out and recreate from scratch.
Posted: 2005-12-03 07:56pm
by Netko
Honestly, at this point having win98 if you have winxp available is stupid considering the improvements, unless of course you have a absurdly old computer (heck, I'm running xp on my 366mhz K6II laptop - its not exactly blazing fast but it gets the job done for email and the like) or truly have a need for a program that doesnt work on xp.
As far as upgrading is concerned, while it would probably be better to reinstall from scratch, unless your install is messed up atm you can probably upgrade without problems (if anything goes wrong wiping and doing it from zero is always an option). And be sure to do a conversion to NTFS for the filesystem, its leaps and bounds better then FAT32, especialy at data corruption prevention do to problems with the harddrive if (or should I say when considering the quality of consumer hard drives) it starts acting up. If you go down the upgrade rout I think it won't be suggested along the way, however you can do it manualy later using a commandline tool (can't remember offhand which one is it).