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planning XP upgrade... potential problems?

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urameatball

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firstly, drivers drivers drivers.

I'm running and ATI radeon 64DDR and knowing ATI, I don't think they'll come out with XP drivers in the near future. Anyone know of any ways around that?

compatibility with games/apps.

does everything run okay? cuz I remember it took a while for many games and apps to be supported when win2k came out. so is XP using the same stuff as 2k? or is it a totally different platform (maybe using wrong terminology)

dualbooting 98SE/XP.

how'd I do that? I guess this is the safest way. 🙂
 
XP IS Win2K in it's essence, so 2K drivers should work. WinXP is very good about including built-in driver support for modern hardware, but I'm not sure if you'll be able to run Quake3 right after installing it like you can using XP + nVidia or 3dfx products. Performance is VERY poor. More than 128MB RAM REALLY helps for once. I saw a 25% improvement in Quake3 benches using a seriously limited Voodoo3, so they'd probably be better with a more modern card.
 
Yes, choose to install to a different directory (Ie, C:\WinXP), leave the current OS intact & the WinXP installer should set it up automatically. It WILL NOT carry over installations & such since it really isn't upgrading.
 
would it be a good idea to have 1 partition for every OS?
cuz I'm afraid that the program files directory might get messy.

I've never done dualboot before.
 
If you use seperate partitions, you'll have to use a boot-loader (ie, System Commander, Boot Magic, LiLo, Etc) to access them. Typically, haveing two primary partitions will mean one will have to be hidden from the other meaning you'll need a 3rd partition for shared apps & you will have to install everything twice. Essentially, the entire partition for the other OS is useless to the booted OS, seriously limiting HD space if you have a small drive.

I also get easily confused w/ installations & applications tangled all over the drive when doing a normal dual-boot, but I figure if I can get it right just once & image the drive I'll be OK!
 
Use Partition Magic (or any other partitioning utility for that matter) and rezise the current partition on your HD to fit Win98 plus some free space for future use. Make a second partition (NOT PRIMARY!) out of the unpartitioned space that is left after the resizing. Now run WinXP's setup and choose to install it on the new partition. You don't have to worry about anything else now, WinXP's setup will set everything up so that you can choose which O/S you want to load at boot time, no need for 3rd party software since you only have 1 primary partition.

I wouldn't recommend running 2 or more O/S in the same partition because you can easily mess things up (eg a simple defrag can move system files) and when you want to get rid of one of them you can't just format and reinstall. You have to delete everything first ...
 
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