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re: Upgrading to XP
Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 5:55 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by sky42
(33 messages posted)
Just to add to what Larry posted, if you do have an OEM disk, you might, I say might,
be able to use a Win98SE disk for the verification step in the install. I suggest
you go the the XP forum and ask this question before you wipe the HDD!
On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 6:46 am, Larry wrote:
>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
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- re: Upgrading to XP (Larry: Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 6:46 am)
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