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re: Upgrading to XP
Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 6:46 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1283 messages posted)
Your machine will run XP fine, but I would definitely reccomend a clean install over
the upgrade route. This can be done with an XP upgrade disk, but ONLY if you have
your ME disk handy (XP won't "invalidate" it), but it has to be a MS disk, not an
OEM restore disk. If your computer came with ME installed and one of these restore
disks, the upgrade route may be your only option unless you can borrow a Microsoft/non
OEM 98/ME disk from someone. The first thing to do is to save any documents/photos/files
you want to keep by burning them to a CD, emailing them to yourself, etc. Also make
sure you have the CDs for any applications like Office, Works, etc. so you can reinstall
them after you reformat your drive and install XP. After doing these things, follow
the direction at the following site and you will end up with a clean, new install
of XP on a properly formatted drive (4K clusters instead of 512 byte clusters, and
NTFS vs. FAT32 file system): http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
On Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 12:03 pm, Walter wrote:
>I have a Dell Dimension 4300, 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 machine, 40 gig harddrive. I justed
>updated the RAM from 384Mb to 512Mb. It currently runs Win ME. I recently purchased
>XP Home upgrade edition but have not yet installed it after hearing this upgrade
>route is often problematic .... What issues are usually encountered after this update
>roue is taken ? Also, does this upgrade route invalidate the ME license such that
>if I needed to reinstall XP at a later date, I could no longer do so since ME is
>now invalid ? (Got this idea from Vista upgrade which invalidates the XP license).
>If that is the case, I will get an XP full install version instead. As a home
>user, what is recommended, XP Home to XP Professional. My aim is to get another
year
>or 2 out of the machine until I really need to upgrade.
- Written in response to:
- Upgrading to XP (Walter: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 12:03 pm)
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