Window 98 move to XP ??

I had written several short items, the I hit some wrong key and my BBS page went away! Now It is not to be found. It was/is very similar to this post.

If you see it anywhere--or know how this can happen please advise.

Here is what I asked;

First I have a year 2000 Micron Millenia PC running Win98 at 733HZ thru a 133 Hz Bus, using a later model IBM DDYS-T18350N [Hard drive] (18.34 GB). This is a SCSI drive.

The present plan is to add another similar drive, then use Norton "Gost" to replicate the present Drive. the new drive will be used for backup in the future.

Then to buy A $50 OEM copy of XP (with a $5 cable to be compliant) and put XP on the original drive.

My Questions are:

How to find the best scsi drive to use, Some say the above drive has been replaced.

Is the $50 OEM copy of XP (with a $5 cable to be compliant) OK?

Any other gotcha's in this plan?

 

Why not just install XP on the new drive and copy your files from the old one, or dual boot? I don't like OEM XP cds, but that's another thread. How much memory do you have? Your system seems to meet XP requirements, but you may not see an increase in performance, because of the age and size of the processor.

Billy Bob, explain OEMs, because I'm too tired to type tonight.

Johanna

 

The letters SCSI leave me right out of the Picture entirely.

I know nuttin from nohow about that.

BB

 

Thanks People,

Joanna,

That may be a good way to go.

"I don't like OEM XP cds, but that's another thread" That is part of my query, why do you not like OEM CDs?

ONe reason to change: My Son bought a new but surplus PC with XP installed.

He says none of his game crash on the new one, This old one gets lots of crashes.

Have 512 Megs Mem.

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"The letters SCSI leave me right out of the Picture entirely. "

This PC has SCSI drive conroller so it needs a scsi drive. Scsi is faster than IDE. SCSI is used on servers.

The modem is the slowest device, the drive is faster, the memory is still faster, the bus is a bottleneck.

My PC is plenty fast, just flakey!

--------Christer,

Thanks, That has to be it!

 

If you can put at least 512 MB of RAM in your current 733MHz machine, I would upgrade immediately. I originally moved over on an 850MHz box and upgraded to 1 GB RAM in the process. My 850 was faster than a Win98 1.8GHz install. It is more stable and I run several games and have only the normal configuation challenges. Once fixed they (so far) have stayed fixed) ... . ....

My experience is Win XP loves RAM - the more the better. Under 512MB seems to have caused marginal performance improvements - although the stability is still there.

Hope this helps.