I have a question about windows xp. Can you load it onto a computer that came with the disk for the program, but you've not used it until now (or seven years)? If so will you lose any information or memory? I am annoyed that I can't load music onto an MP3 player, so I want to take the advice of my computer:get windows xp, but I definetly do not want to lose ANY info I have previously saved. Please help me.

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --


Why take the chance, get a new HD they are cheap now days and install XP on it and 
then slave your win2k OS as a 2nd HD.

Once they are gone they are gone..
If you install XP in the NTFS you can get to your files and move them or used them 
from the 2nd HD.







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On Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 6:23 pm, HAL wrote:

>I have a question about windows xp.  Can you load it onto a computer that came with 

>the disk for the program, but you've not used it until now (or seven years)?  If 

>so will you lose any information or memory?  I am annoyed that I can't load music 

>onto an MP3 player, so I want to take the advice of my computer:get windows xp, 
but 

>I definetly do not want to lose ANY info I have previously saved.  Please help me.

>

>
 

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You can load it onto your machine, but it's not a good idea to upgrade w2k->xp but 
rather do a fresh install.  In the process of installing you will likely wipe your 
disk clean and lose your data.   I suggest (as DEX suggests) to get another disk 
and use either as the xp drive or save your data to it anyway you are familiar with. 
 If you don't have that much data you could use one of more flash drives - they come 
in 2 GB sizes or more these days and use it for back up and a way to get your data 
into a system that you have done a fresh install of xp to.
BTW - what's the problem with loading files to an mp3 player using w2k? 
Good luck.  Outofpocket

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You could also slave the new drive (or partition the old one) and create a dual-boot 
machine (xp and 2k). 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559/en-us

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