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Advice on Replacing ME with XP
Name: JD Date: March 25, 2003 at 07:38:48 Pacific OS: Win ME CPU/Ram: 2 ghz/ 384 ram
Comment:
Can anyone offer up any advice on the best way to replace Windows ME with XP Home edition. I have the XP disks so should I remove ME in its entirety before I start?
even if your XP is the upgrade version, most of the advice on this suggests that you do a full install of XP with all of the implications that has. ensure that you have all of your data backed up onto either another hard drive partition or onto removable media such as CD. Al
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Response Number 2
Name: Ray Peate Date: March 25, 2003 at 08:07:25 Pacific
Reply:
Suggest you take a look at
www.windowsreinstall.com
A wealth of installation advice and how to's for all Windows OS inc XP
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Response Number 3
Name: scootr Date: March 25, 2003 at 15:00:37 Pacific
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speaking from experience... do the full install.. upgrades from microsoft suck... hence.. there will ALWAYS be problems if you do the upgrade.
easiest way is if you have a second drive.. copy your data to second drive.
g/l scootr
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Response Number 4
Name: frank Date: March 27, 2003 at 10:07:54 Pacific
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What I can see of xp, to me you will be going backwards, the only advantage I see, is that ms has something new to peddle, not better, but different, and it rings the cash register, frank
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