Can Win 98se be upgraded to Win ME?

[classy]

I was wondering can you upgrade 98/98se to Win ME? Or do you have buy the whole Win ME os?

 

[Blayze]

you have to buy the windows me upgrade.
I just have upgraded a laptop running windows 98 1st edition to windows me tonight and it went super smooth
no problems at all.


-Blayze

 

[classy]

So I can just buy the upgrade and be good to go?

 

[Blayze]

correct
all you need to get is the Windows ME upgrade

 

[classy]

Thanks, Blayze

 

[chansen]

I hate to jump in on an otherwise dead thread, but I've never seen a Windows upgrade go well, and understand that the success rate is relatively low, especially on old installs. Blayze, I don't mean to contradict you, but I also know many others on this forum promote clean installs on a freshly formatted drive. It is more work to partition/backup, format and reinstall, but I like how much more "snappy" Windows feels on a clean install.

Regards,
Craig

 

[Blayze]

Classy

No problem


chansen

I agree that it feels more "snappy". I always do clean installs on my computers as well.

 

[bonkers325]

sure why not
ms will be releasing a upgrade($109) and full version($209)

 

[Oric]

To reinstall a fresh Win98 on your hard disk takes

15 Minutes if you have created an image of a fresh install on a CD-R
45 minutes if you go all the way from W98 Install CD

so Microsoft charges $100 for 15 to 45 minutes of your life time ! (Difference between the upgrade and full version)

 

[bonkers325]

dood they have to make a living some how
look at bill
he makes some much $ from us

 

[Cable]

heh, i just borrowed the full install from a friend and i upgraded from win98se clean install and nothing went wrong. nor do i think anything will go wrong. i just think it "feels" better to have done a fresh install without upgrading. thats how i used to feel. and once the retail version of winme comes out, ill start doing fresh installs. but till then, upgrading will do fine. also if you're short on cash, upgrading is fine, really. i nothing wrong happend. but i recommend that if you are going to do a upgrade from win98/se, i suggest that you format/clean install of win98se and then upgrade. just mho.

 

[Auric]

Just depends how much stuff you have installed that you want to keep and don't want to reinstall. A fresh install is always better though. Besides who wants that "not so fresh feeling"?