Re: Win98SE to XP

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:37:34 GMT, <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

In the summer I'm going to see a friend in the South of France. I know
that he has a W98 machine with only one partition and everything's in
it.

Let us suppose that he buys a British PC with XP already installed
into one cathedral like partition. How should we proceed to transfer
from one machine to the other, hopefully using Acronis or Ghost 2003?

I imagine that I should take out the new hard drive and jumper it as
slave. Connect it to the W98 system and clone it to the slave. Then
transfer the drive to the new system and jumper it as master. It
should then run as a W98 machine.

If I had an XP upgrade disk instead of a new installation one would I
then be able to turn it into a new machine running XP.

What does anybody think. I expect Anna shall have something to say
about this.

Best wishes

Colin


hi

My friend in France phoned me today. It seems that the machine in
question is a laptop running "Windows 2003". I think he means 2000.
He actually wants to keep all the dross. Because he's a friend I want
to catch it all before it falls over.

Even so there would be no downgrade, would there? The level would be
the same until the upgrade, but nothing would go down.

As for the device drivers surely that will be taken care of in the XP
upgrade exercise.

I should be happy to safely clone it all to the new HDD then do an
upgrade to XP.

With regard to Anna's message - I was just checking with you to see if
the clone followed by the upgrade is feasible. If he finishes with
the same as before but with XP and on a safe machine I think he'll be
delighted.

Colin
.

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