Win98 to XP Pro Horror Stories?

[mijremlap]

I've read via this forum that the migration from Win98 to WinXP / Pro will be well worth the effort.

Just curious to hear of any horror stories or what to look out for.

My configuration is pretty simple, standard MS Office 2000 software, CD Creator / Direct CD, general utility products, web page design tools, Quickbooks Pro.

This is a home office machine that I use for running a small business. Would hate to loose my business software and critical files (so I know that a thorough backup will be in order).

Like all things in this world, I know that technology needs to move forward, but I hate spending valuable weekend hours and nights fighting an upgrade. I've done it all too many times.

If anyone has any "heads up" tales to tell, I would love to see someone speak up.

 

[minendo]

CD Creator / Direct CD

Depending on the version of above program, it may not work in XP. That is the only problem I see with you making the upgrade. Of course WinXP has burning software built in.

 

[x1v]

Yeah, 98 to XP Pro is a good idea. As far as hardware, XP recognized all of mine, without a problem. I wouldn't be so quick to just install XP Pro, Win2k Pro is a great OS, especially for what your doing. Just figured I'd throw it in, in case you haven't considered it.

typoz

 

[QTPie]

MS Office 2000 software, and Quickbooks Pro will work fine under winxp. As Minendo said, you probably need the update/upgrade for CD Creator / Direct CD

 

[ProviaFan]

I would strongly recommend, assuming you have the original software disks (and yes, you're most likely going to need to upgrade that CD Creator software), performing a "fresh install" by deleting your current FAT32 partition and creating in its place a new NTFS partition. This will give you additional security and stability with the new filesystem that is tuned to work well with the features that NT-based OSes have. Of course, you will need to have verified backups of all your data, because it will be lost from the hard disk.