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Alec Ford <alecford@clear.net.nz> wrote
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> I think the best advice anyone could give would be don't bother, upgrade
> your hardware. You don't tell us what your hardware is. I still run a
> Pentium 233 that I bought just a month before Win 98 came out. It was
> pretty typical of a consumer machine then, 32 Mb of memory was typical. So
> if you started life with Win95 chances are you hardware will not be up to
> running XP.
>
> You could still benefit from a bigger disk. I started with a 3Gb disk, then
> to 12Gb and then to 40Gb. 3 to 12 was OK but there was a problem in some
> award BIOS around then and I had to Flash the BIOS to handle the 40Gb disk.
> I tried to put the 12 Gb in a P133 - also Win95 era - but it wouldn't go -
> there was limit around 8Gb in many BIOS around that time. I recently tried
> an 80Gb but no luck.
>
> I recently tried to put an 80 Gb in a P350 for a friend and no luck (Award
> BIOS). There is a jumper on some disks out there that can limit the disk to
> 32Gb for backward compatibility but I didn't try this. I just went for
> second hand 15Gb. On the other hand a Compaq of similar specs handles the
> 80Gb OK.
> If you do go for just a disk upgrade be prepared to try
> different combinations and maybe settle for second hand.
Or understand what you are doing.
> You will get a performance improvement due to various factors,
> Bigger disk cache, faster disk, bigger cluster size in the file system
> and just the more space means it's easier to find free space.
> You can just copy most of the file system from with windows
> except for some windows files which you can do at command
> prompt, then do a SYS D: or whatever but maybe it's a bit
> tricky unless you know what you are doing.
And you clearly dont on that.
> Best to do when you original system is not C:
> but that requires another system to run from.
> I guess you'd be on a quick learning curve
Or he can ask for and get a good list of how to do it.
> <bdealhoy@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:1118674350.527232.226490@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> My old C; drive (win 95, then 98 then ME) has finally ran out of space.
>> Lots of applciaitons installed that I don';t want to loose or would be
>> a total pain re-installing.
>>
>> I'm also think that it's time to shift to XP Pro.
>>
>> What is the best sequence of doing this?
>>
>> xcopy /e/h VERSUS GHOST?
>>
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