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Advice Required Please for New Install
I am presently running on 98SE with fairly frequent re-boots needed
and am thinking of changing to XP. I have ordered an Home Edition, Full Version, (I'm fed up with having to save the old Win 3.1 floppies every time I re-install). Because I'm scared of trying a new system I'm thinking of setting up initially as dual boot. I would very much appreciate experienced users views on this and on the following. If I do set up for dual boot, do I need to remove existing programs such as Office 2000, Norton System Works 2003 & Eudora from the Win98 operation before I install them on the XP operation? Or, if not, would they be usable on whichever system I booted into? Thanks John Dix |
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Advice Required Please for New Install
Multibooting with Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ted/multiboot. asp "JD" wrote in message ... I am presently running on 98SE with fairly frequent re-boots needed and am thinking of changing to XP. I have ordered an Home Edition, Full Version, (I'm fed up with having to save the old Win 3.1 floppies every time I re-install). Because I'm scared of trying a new system I'm thinking of setting up initially as dual boot. I would very much appreciate experienced users views on this and on the following. If I do set up for dual boot, do I need to remove existing programs such as Office 2000, Norton System Works 2003 & Eudora from the Win98 operation before I install them on the XP operation? Or, if not, would they be usable on whichever system I booted into? Thanks John Dix |
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Advice Required Please for New Install
Hi,
If you setup a dual boot, you will need to install the programs from = under the secondary OS (WinXP). There is no need to uninstall them in = the Win98 system first. For that matter, to conserve space, you can = install them to the exact same program folder under which they are = currently installed. Should you choose to upgrade and backup the existing system, see: http://aumha.org/a/xpupgrad.htm --=20 Best of Luck, Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - = http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone - = www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org "JD" wrote in message = ... I am presently running on 98SE with fairly frequent re-boots needed and am thinking of changing to XP. I have ordered an Home Edition, Full Version, (I'm fed up with having to save the old Win 3.1 floppies every time I re-install). =20 Because I'm scared of trying a new system I'm thinking of setting up initially as dual boot. I would very much appreciate experienced users views on this and on the following. =20 If I do set up for dual boot, do I need to remove existing programs such as Office 2000, Norton System Works 2003 & Eudora from the Win98 operation before I install them on the XP operation? Or, if not, would they be usable on whichever system I booted into? =20 Thanks =20 John Dix |
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Advice Required Please for New Install
Thanks, Rick, your second sentence is precisely what I needed to know.
John Dix "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers" wrote: Hi, If you setup a dual boot, you will need to install the programs from under the secondary OS (WinXP). There is no need to uninstall them in the Win98 system first. For that matter, to conserve space, you can install them to the exact same program folder un der which they are currently installed. Should you choose to upgrade and backup the existing system, see: http://aumha.org/a/xpupgrad.htm |
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Advice Required Please for New Install
JD wrote:
I am presently running on 98SE with fairly frequent re-boots needed and am thinking of changing to XP. I have ordered an Home Edition, Full Version, (I'm fed up with having to save the old Win 3.1 floppies every time I re-install). Because I'm scared of trying a new system I'm thinking of setting up initially as dual boot. I would very much appreciate experienced users views on this and on the following. If I do set up for dual boot, do I need to remove existing programs such as Office 2000, Norton System Works 2003 & Eudora from the Win98 operation before I install them on the XP operation? Or, if not, would they be usable on whichever system I booted into? You would only need to keep a win98 'proper' CD around, but as you have ordered it. . . If you set up a dual boot you have two quite separate operating systems, and they would need to be in separate partitions (so you would have to have some third party program to resize your Win98 one to make space unless you already have a second primary one. You then install from the 98, running the CD, changing the suggested Upgrade to New Install, and when it asks where, hit ESC so as to select the second partition. You would then need to reinstall all this application software. But could install them into the same actual folders as before, so that the only impact on the XP partition would be files put into the Windows folder, and registry entries. --=20 Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems) Bournemouth, U.K. |
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Advice Required Please for New Install
Thanks, Alex, my win98 CD is itself an upgrade - I stupidly threw out
the original on getting the upgrade CD so now I have to go back to my old floppies. If I set up as dual boot and slowly install programs for use on XP using the existing folders, what happens when I decide to remove win98? Do the folders retain both sets of program files? John Dix Alex Nichol wrote: JD wrote: I am presently running on 98SE with fairly frequent re-boots needed and am thinking of changing to XP. I have ordered an Home Edition, Full Version, (I'm fed up with having to save the old Win 3.1 floppies every time I re-install). Because I'm scared of trying a new system I'm thinking of setting up initially as dual boot. I would very much appreciate experienced users views on this and on the following. If I do set up for dual boot, do I need to remove existing programs such as Office 2000, Norton System Works 2003 & Eudora from the Win98 operation before I install them on the XP operation? Or, if not, would they be usable on whichever system I booted into? You would only need to keep a win98 'proper' CD around, but as you have ordered it. . . If you set up a dual boot you have two quite separate operating systems, and they would need to be in separate partitions (so you would have to have some third party program to resize your Win98 one to make space unless you already have a second primary one. You then install from the 98, running the CD, changing the suggested Upgrade to New Install, and when it asks where, hit ESC so as to select the second partition. You would then need to reinstall all this application software. But could install them into the same actual folders as before, so that the only impact on the XP partition would be files put into the Windows folder, and registry entries. |
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