98SE upgrade

[The Hunter]

Interesting question, I have 98SE on my c drive, and has anyone had any luck upgrading it to xp? The reason i was thinking about doing it this way, is because I am running XP on my d-drive, and if it would upgrade nicely, i would then dump my music from d to c, and format my d drive. Without loosing my music, I guess my other option is to do a clean install on c, and again dump my music over to it, and then format d. The reason i am soon going to have to do it is because the d drive is a 40 gig fujitsu on its last year of warrenty, and I know it will shit the bed soon.

[pyfarr]

Interesting question, I have 98SE on my c drive, and has anyone had any luck upgrading it to xp? The reason i was thinking about doing it this way, is because I am running XP on my d-drive, and if it would upgrade nicely, i would then dump my music from d to c, and format my d drive. Without loosing my music, I guess my other option is to do a clean install on c, and again dump my music over to it, and then format d. The reason i am soon going to have to do it is because the d drive is a 40 gig fujitsu on its last year of warrenty, and I know it will shit the bed soon.


Okay, what kind of computer do you have? If you have a Pentium 2 or lower, you can't upgrade to XP -- you need at least 1 GHZ to do that.
You may be able to upgrade to ME -- but not higher -- what you can try is 2000 -- a great OS but if your computer crashes over and over -- that is not good -- 98 is what you need to stick to.

[shawners]

i tried to upgrade to windows ME, ill tell you this. I went back to windows98 cause it had problems and conflicts. I would recommend buying a NEW Drive, take out c-drive, Use your d drive with windows xp.. and your new drive as D drive =0)

[The Hunter]

ME is a downgrade, and I am now running duel boot 98SE, and XP. You do not need a 1 gig to run xp, far from it. i just installed it on a 500 AMD running 256 of sd ram, and no problems.

[Muffin_Man]

98se should have no problem upgrading to XP, although a clean install is always better and at least in my experience less of a hassle.

[The Hunter]

Thats kind of what i thought muffin man,so i probably will just dump the 98 from c, install XP on it, dump my music from d to it, and then format my d.

[collideous]

Thats kind of what i thought muffin man,so i probably will just dump the 98 from c, install XP on it, dump my music from d to it, and then format my d.

Well, my c-drive just experienced the click of death last week. Fortunately, all my music sat on my d-drive. It's all I got left now. If you love your tunes, keep them separate, or have a backup.

By the way, the death of my drive has also a positive side. I replaced it with a brand-new 120 gig drive, and I get to start with a clean installation (partitioned) - free from all those apps I barely used. Heh - just one file-sharing app installed. I'm going lean!

[The Hunter]

If it all goes as planned, i will be keeping my most valued files on both drives, as well as burned. That is a lesson learned the hard way, as we both know.

[phalkon30]

I've had major problems with upgrading 98 to XP. Mainly it wouldn't allow me to install with programs that used a .cab file and were on a cd. I reinstalled from scratch with XP, and the same programs worked fine.

You might have luck with that, but I think in the long run you'd be better off clean installing.

Put your music on one HD, take it out of your case (just in case), format the drive you want XP on. Install the other HD. If you have 2 windows (which it sounds like you might have then), move the music off of that drive, format it in XP, then move stuff back.

I just confused myself...but yeah.

One thing I found works nicely, is I made a 2 gig partition on my C: drive that is for the page file, and cd burning page file. It keeps fragmentation down on my programs partion (on the same drive).

I also download to my programs partition, then copy to a "media" hard drive. This keeps fragmentation to zero on the media drive (files are automaticly defragmented when transfered). Hope that makes sense...it took me a few times to understand it when krell tought me how. It works very nicely, and very fast though. Plus, if you get a virus that wipes out windows, all your important files are on the media drive.

[The Hunter]

It will take a while for me to get that advanced, but yes i have 2 drives, my C is the smallest one I could get a 8.4 gig, and i love it, as it forces me to move my downloads to d defragging it in the process. Removal of my d drive is not a problem, as its in a removable bay. a great way to share a lot of files. I just take it to a friends house, and they can see what they want, and dump it across real fast. Also on the plus side is that someone else can use my pc while i am helping out a friend on phone lines.

[origin]

98 sucks a lot anywayz ....if the upgrade process is shitty from 98 to XP for you what is wrong with doing a clean install?


l8

[The Hunter]

Actually nothing, i was pondering it as i was being lazy, and trying to save my settings. But the clean install is obviously the way to go.

[talkinghand]

i don't know what all this hubub about 1ghz is, but i have succesfully installed xp on a p1 133 mhz with 64mmgs ram, and it ran FINE. NO crashes.

I read 1 ghz everywhere, and i am like, well have you tried it lower... it does work.

[The Hunter]

Agreed, it just takes a bit of proper setting up for it to run cleanly on a pc like that, and i find this site is one of the best to spell out in simple terms how to set things up to lower the resources used.http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

[method77]

/me thinks it's about time to upgrade my windows

[CCSDUDE]

ME is a downgrade, and I am now running duel boot 98SE, and XP. You do not need a 1 gig to run xp, far from it. i just installed it on a 500 AMD running 256 of sd ram, and no problems.
Exactly... I've installed XP on one old ass Celly @ 266mhz and 128mb of SD...no problem. To the dude who said you need at least a 1ghz CPU...get yer facts straight before you spew your crap. : P

Hunter I'm sure it can be done based on XP's ablity to run off FAT32...try booting off your XP disc then selecting leave as is on the partition screen. I've never done it before but I have formatted in FAT32 and ran off that via XP so it should work just fine...just install to a new directory.

[strigoi-tepes]

Okay, what kind of computer do you have? If you have a Pentium 2 or lower, you can't upgrade to XP -- you need at least 1 GHZ to do that.
You may be able to upgrade to ME -- but not higher -- what you can try is 2000 -- a great OS but if your computer crashes over and over -- that is not good -- 98 is what you need to stick to.
yes you can run win xp on a system with less than a 1 ghz cpu, i run xp pro corp on both my antiques no problem, 1 is an amd 533k6 w/3D now, with 256 megs of pc100 ( no laughing) with a single 20 gig hdd, runs great and is a hell of an improvement over win98se, the other antique is a celeron 266 with with 192 megs of pc100 both systems run great , win xp pro corp is an awesome OS and i thank my bro progrockusa69 for all the help, hope this helps ya and i would do a fresh install and reload what ya want. c ya . Strigoi Tepes

[phalkon30]

I just installed it on a 233 PII with 388 meg pc100, and a 500 celeron with a little over 300 meg of pc100, the celeron runs a bit faster, but both fly pretty good once you turn off a few wastefull services like themes and indexing. The thing slowing them down the most are anchient hard drives that are ata33