re: best option on upgrading to xp Friday, February 9, 2007 at 6:45 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Larry (1327 messages posted) If you have (or can borrow from someone) a Microsoft (not an OEM restore) 98 or ME disk, buy a copy of XP upgrade. You can do a full install of XP from the upgrade disk and it's cheaper than the "full" version. Boot from the upgrade disk and early in the process it will say it couldn't find a qualifying version of Windows on the HD and will ask you to insert a qualifying Windows CD in the CD drive. After it has determined that it's indeed OK you''l be told to remove it and put the XP disk back in and the install will proceed as normal. On Friday, February 9, 2007 at 4:18 am, Johan Cordice wrote: >A friend gave me a cpu. They had winMe on it but was getting the error message Sys.ini >is corrupted or missing. when they tried to boot it from a floppy they got Disk I/O >error Replace disk and press any key to continue..... They said that some guy tried >to fix it but couldn't and ended up formatting the hard disk. When I boot it up now >it goes to the Windows 98 Dos prompt. And the only file on it is COMMAND.COM. It >has a 30 GB hard drive and 512MB RAM. I'm looking to install XP Professional. what's >the best way of doing it. Guys I'm in desperate need please help Written in response to: best option on upgrading to xp (Johan Cordice: Friday, February 9, 2007 at 4:18 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] best option on upgrading to xp (Johan Cordice: Fri, Feb 9, 2007, 4:18 am) re: best option on upgrading to xp (Larry: Fri, Feb 9, 2007, 6:45 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum