Re: Upgrading to XP from W2K - advantages?

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From: Gingangooli (aintusingemail_at_thisplace.net)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:57:28 +0000

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Ginga.
>
> I've never regretted upgrading from Win2K to WinXP Pro on the day it
> came out in 2001! ;<) But I do very little gaming and don't have a
> network or other users on my computer.
>
> If your WinXP CD-ROM is a current version, it will have SP2 integrated
> into it and the whole process should take no more than an hour or two,
> including formatting your HD. It's a good idea to unplug unnecessary
> peripherals before you begin. Especially any HD with an Active
> (bootable) primary partition on it; if Setup detects an Active partition
> on any HD, it will let that keep drive letter C:, assigning another
> letter (G:?) to your System (and Boot?) volume - and that can't be
> changed without starting over.
>
> If you upgrade from Win2K, your boot folder will inherit the prior name
> (\WinNT?), rather than WinXP's default, \Windows. Neither the boot
> folder name nor the drive letter will matter to WinXP, but it will
> almost certainly confuse you - and all the applications you will install
> that expect to put their files on Drive C:.
>
> Upgrades from Win2K to WinXP usually go smoothly, since they both are on
> the NT platform, as opposed to upgrades from Win9x/ME, which require all
> new drivers and sometimes new versions of software. But a clean
> install, including a reformat, clears out the accumulated deadwood and
> garbage, making it worth the time to reinstall apps and restore data, in
> many cases.
>
> RC
Thanks for the replies guys.

I will probably go for a clean install, reformatting both my HDs, just
to (as RC said) to clean out all the deadwood.

I have XP SP2 on CD anyway (free with a games mag).. so Im ready for
that bit. Also I would want to stick SP2 on before ANYTHING else.

One last question.... With W2K installation you had the option to set up
the HD as FAT32 or NTFS. I assume that option is also the case with XP?
So which one is better? FAT32 or NTFS?

tia Ginga

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