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Subject:RE: upgrade from 98 to XP From:Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- nocpulse -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:36:14 -0800
John,
I just upgraded my kids computer to XP from ME. I had no problems with the
installation and it took about an hour. Afterwards, XP kept telling me that
I didn't have any net connection. I could still browse the web however. I
ran the home networking wizard that it has and everything was golden again.
I will be doing my 98 machine next, I would recommend you purchase some kind
of ghosting software to make an image of your system before the upgrade so
you could restore it if necessary. Norton comes to mind.
BTW, in the instructions it says that the windows installer will give you
the option of using NTFS (for drives over 35GB) or FAT-32, mine didn't.
Wade
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:18 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: upgrade from 98 to XP
>
>
> I'm using W98 and muy laptop has 196 mb ram. I go in and out of
> applications that require large pices of RAM fairly often throughout
> the day and I find that I must reboot often becuase 98 tends to not
> give back on release, as much of thr ram as it took. Therefore, my
> available resources grt smaller and smaller until I reboot.
>
> I want to upgrade to XP (not 2000, pleasee don't suggest it) and I
> would like to do it without a reformat. I know it would be better if
> I did, but I cannot right now.
>
> Question...how well does the upgrade work...is it a clean upgrade?
>
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