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September 6th, 2005, 04:34 PM
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Re: OT: Operating System Upgrade
Considering the size of this system, I would rather have GT shove his Red Hot Firepoker Cannon up my arse than wipe these two hard drives.
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September 6th, 2005, 05:21 PM
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Re: OT: Operating System Upgrade
Don't worry about reinstalling all your stuff. I upgraded to SP2 only to find I had to reset all my programs after SP2 installed itself and erased all my settings. Thanks  Gates!!!
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September 6th, 2005, 06:01 PM
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Re: OT: Operating System Upgrade
Note:
You don't have to wipe all the drives.
Only the particular partition of the particular drive you're going to be installing to.
You can move all the generic files you want to keep to the other drive for safekeeping.
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September 6th, 2005, 07:20 PM
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Re: OT: Operating System Upgrade
I wouldn’t upgrade, way too many limitations. What I would do is buy another drive and then do a dual boot. That way you get the best of both worlds. You can still run your legacy software on 9x. As for files, not apps, you’ll be able to access them from XP.
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September 6th, 2005, 07:49 PM
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Re: OT: Operating System Upgrade
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Thermodyne said:
I wouldn’t upgrade, way too many limitations. What I would do is buy another drive and then do a dual boot. That way you get the best of both worlds. You can still run your legacy software on 9x. As for files, not apps, you’ll be able to access them from XP.
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Interesting idea...
Someone once posted the method for creating a dual-boot system, but IIRC, doesn't XP have to be on FIRST? Anyone have a link where I can read up on that?
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