Re: Win98SE to XP
- From: <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:38:39 GMT
Good heavens!
I honestly don't want to offend you since you have gone out of your
way to be helpful when I wanted help but ...
The old and wonky machine is the laptop. I think that you mean that
after transferring the cloned drive to the new machine the old drivers
won't be much good. That's something to consider. Many thanks.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:57:53 -0000, "DL" <dl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If its new its unlikely to be win2k as that o/s was retired by MS some time
ago.
The drivers will NOT be taken care of when installing xp/win2k
If its a new laptop its entirely possible that there wont be win9* drivers
Laptops use drivers that are specific to the laptop manu.
You are planning a disaster!, either network the PC's or copy data to
another media before restoring to new pc.
I plan to use an external HDD that I keep for these exercises. It's
connected via USB and has its own PSU. I haven't yet checked that the
old laptop has USB.
Its highly likely that the laptop will only come with a restore disk, which
means you will not be able to upgrade.
It's the new computer that we have to consider and I'm hoping that he
will build it himself or allow me to. I'll buy an upgrade rather than
a fresh install. I hope that caters for the problem.
When he said windows 2003 its quite possible he meant Office 2003, which mayOh dear, I don't think that this will happen. Everything that I use
be only a *trial* version.
Its also possible that some of the win9* apps will not run on winxp
is downwards compatible.
Please don't be put off by my reply. If there's a weasel in the plan
I'd rather know about it.
Best wishes
Colin
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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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