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re: converting to XP Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 7:43 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Buy a upgrade XP CD, and do a upgrade install. Just insert the XP CD when Windows is running, follow the on screen directions, and Pray you don't have any problems. [Reply or follow-up to this message] MS tutorial Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 7:52 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: converting to XP Friday, August 1, 2008 at 2:48 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) Tom wrote: |Need to change format and not lose info? Well burn the info to a CD first just as a backup. Well because WinXP has the option to use NTFS or FAT32 make sure you select FAT32 else the drive will be formatted NTFS and you loose everything. Thats if you have this option with a WinME to WinXP upgrade. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: converting to XP Friday, August 1, 2008 at 9:52 am Posted by JimmyK (168 messages posted) What brand of computer are you using? Check with the computer manufacturer for an upgrade advisory. There they can tell you what hardware and software if any will and will not nwork and what you will need to replace them. Some times a bios update is needed also. Or if you don't want to mess with it yourself have a professional do it. Bestbuy is generally a good place to start, they can sell you what you need and install it, update everything including bios if needed and have you on your way. Now depending on age of computer it might be cheaper to buy a new system than to update and upgrade old system. You may end up having to buy a new ps (power supply), graphics card for the newer apps and games, DVD burner if you don't have one, a bigger hard drive, and so on. The bottom line is money, how much are you willing to spend to update and upgrade. For me I had an old hp pavilion w/me and upgraded it to xp just to see if I could do it. It has a 20 gig hard drive, cd burner, floppy drive and some software. Half of my software was incompatible. So I decided to buy a new system and passed the old one on to the kids. Good luck. On Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 6:58 pm, Tom wrote: >Need to change format and not lose info? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum