Tina,
There are minimum system requirements (RAM, processor, and disk space) for
all the proposals you have outlined. Generally, all the OS's you mentioned
can be upgraded to the next version of windows, but that is provided you are
upgrading from an OEM disk and not a recovery set. There are also some
driver issues that would need to be addressed, but most XP updated hardware
drivers are available from recourses like drivers.com or the hardware
manufacturer website.
There is a compatibility test that can be accessed from the M$ website that
will test your system and provide you with a complete listing of problems
that you may run into upon installing XP to your system. (Sorry, don't have
time to look it up for you at the moment, but a Google search should find it
for you)
Installing memory on any system is VERY easy, and is explained in detail at
www.crucial.com and if you use their wizard, you should be able to find the
minimum and maximum RAM for your system. Also, your system can easily be
identified by installing the Belarc Advisor, which you will find a link for
on Crucial's website.
HTH a bit...
Dean Kiley
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From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list Subject: [PCSOFT]
upgrade windows98 to windowsxp
Hi,
I have a windows98 computer that I gave to my parents when I got a
windowsxp. My Dad wants to upgrade to windowsxp. Can this be done by just
installing the windowsxp purchased from any computer software store? I also
have an old windows95 unit. My kids have a lot of games that use windows98.
Can we install 98 on the windows95 unit and windowsxp on the windows98 unit?
Do we need to get more RAM or a different hard drive?
The windows98 unit runs 2nd edition on a Pavilion PentiumII processor with
128MB of RAM 54% Free space.
I know I need to run scandisk and defrag on the old unit and I need to
backup the system. (HOW do I do that?) I also need to get all windows98
updates and put on the old hard drive(I didn't keep it up very good.) I had
instructions to do this but can't find them so I would appreciate it if
someone could walk me through bringing up the updates and downloading and
saving them to floppy and/or cd.
If we need more memory how do we go about getting and installing it?
Thanks for your time and efforts ,
Tina Foskey
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