Installing XP on PII 400; possible to go back to 98/2k if things go bad??

[ip]

I guess that's the whole question. It's a PII 400 with 256 RAM. I'll upgrade the RAM to 512 to speed things up too.

But if things go awry, can I just install 2k or 98 to go back or do I really need to reformat?

TIA.

 

[Richard98]

If you had a second drive, you could create an image of your current setup with Norton Ghost, save it to the second drive, then restore the image to your boot drive if xp didn't work out for you.

 

[ip]

Hmm... well I do have a 2nd drive. It's 9.5 GB while my main one has 15 GB filled (out of 40). I could get rid of some stuff and burn some more to pare it down and do that. Nice idea, thanks.

 

[Doh!]

you have more than enough space on your main hard drive (25 gig available). just create a partition to save an image of the current setup (use fat32 to store the image file though). most imgaing software have a compression feature which will make the image much smaller than the actual size. for example, my backup image of XP & 50+ programs is less than 1 gig.

 

[Kanalua]

I put WinXP on my old Celeron 416 mhz system and it runs fine, you shouldn't have any problems.

But, if you're still worried, partition and image your drive, like suggested, even better, saved all you files tio the new partition, then reformat, and clean install, winXP will be much better that way...

my opinion...

 

[j0lly]

As it has been suggested before, XP on a PII 400 will run just fine. I have the same configuration as you do and have not had any problems to date. I did do a clean install.