Re: Upgade to Windows XP
- From: "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 06:13:03 -0500
OS support means various things, or a combination of those. For example,
but not all inclusive, hardware additions or changes that lack driver
support for that previous MS OS, newer 3rd party applications that do not
work in that MS OS version, MS applications that do not work in that version
OS, security updates (applicable) that are not provided for that version MS
OS.
Some, or all of such lack of such support in a previous MS OS may suade some
individuals to "upgrading" to XP.
There are occasions when moving to a newer PC is the only viable way to make
such a change.
Dave
"VanguardLH" <VanguardLH@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Recolections" <Recolections@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am attempting to upgrade my operating system, as it is no longer
supported.
Why do you care if an old version of the OS is no longer supported? Did
you actually get any support for it before? You get 2 incidents for free
with Windows. After that, you pay. Did you use up those 2 incidents?
Did you actually bother to pay to get further support? Not supported does
NOT mean not usable. That choice is YOURS.
I intend to use the method of istalling in from a disk I obtained from a
department store [Walmart to be exact].
So I take it we are to guess that you inserted into your computer a hard
drive that was polluted with a previous install of the OS. Why do you
think that would work? Was the hardware configuration EXACTLY the same
for the old computer under which the OS was installed onto that hard disk
as for your hardware configuration where you moved the hard disk? You've
heard of device drivers, right. Well, they are coded to support SPECIFIC
hardware devices. Is the CPU the same between the old computer and your
computer? Is the motherboard's chipset the same? Do they both have the
same NIC? Do they have the same printers, spec for the USB (1.x vs. 2.0),
the same mouse, the same keyboard, the same video adapter/controller, and
so on? If so, why didn't you get them to simply let you swap your
computer for theirs (under the assumption the OS on the hard disk was
working okay when it was in their computer)?
There is no way Walmart would sell hard disk with the OS pre-installed
without including the rest of the computer with it (i.e., the hard disk is
*in* a computer under which [an image of] the OS was installed). Walmart
would have no clue as to how to properly image the OS on the hard disk so
that it would work with some unknown computer hardware configuration. So
just how did you get just the hard disk from Walmart with the OS already
preloaded on it? Yeah, doesn't sound like a legit OS install.
When doing the compatibility test
there are items that are not compatible, and I don't know how to remove
them.
An example is the intel graphic technology.
What you got was a polluted hard disk. You should install a FRESH copy of
the OS. Either wipe the hard disk (www.killdisk.com) or use the
partitioning tools included in the OS setup to delete, [re]create, and
format the partition in which you install the OS. But then I suspect that
you never did get a legal copy of the OS with the polluted hard disk.
.
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