how can one upgrade one's computer frome windows 98 to ??
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You can always install Windows XP on it but do make sure you have the minimum system requirements.Also, you can keep 2 operating systems,the Windows XP CD will guide you through it but make sure your hard drive is partitioned.If not, the installation CD fr Windows XP can do that also but dont forget to back up your data and files.
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You need Windows 2000 or XP
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let your current version of windows load then put in the new windows cd and select upgrade
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No. There is no eay way. Perhaps the easiest is to simply buy another hard disk (if you can actually install one in your hardware) and install a fresh copy of the operating system on it, making it the a new c drive, but this raises some particular issues. Some applications (and many operating systems) require that certain files (configuration stuff, for instance) be on the same drive from which the system has booted (or on which the application is installed). So changing to a new drive like this will involve some obscure issues dependent on not so obvious details of how this or that program (including the operating system) was designed and implemented. \n\n==========\nThere are some things you'll have to think about here, before you do anything at all. I'll assume you aren't going to get a new hard disk, and discuss the problem as you laid it out. Namely, reformatting the existing C drive and reinstalling your system on it. \n\nDo you really need to reformat? You may be able to reinstall Windows over itself, and if a damage Windows file is part of the problem, escape without the major pain of reformatting. \n\n========\nFirst, without the installation CD (or copies of all the files from it) you're sunk. I'm not sure from what you say whether you have a copy of the CD on your second drive or not. If you don't ... Trouble lies that way. \n\nSecond, You must backup everything you have on the C drive that is not reinstalled from the distribution disks. And you must be certain that whatever backup method you choose will be able to actually read the backup formatted files after the reinstallation. It is not unusual, sadly, for some backup programs to be unable to actually read in the backup files it creates. \n"Backup" includes the operating system (Microsoft has dropped support for 98 and for SE, so you would be well advised to update -- my suggestion is to 2000, but some folks are willing to settel for 2000 Lite -- ie, XP. Or even to make this your opportunity to switch to a vendor who poses fewer problems -- the main option as I write this is one of the kind_of_Unixen), Linux -- my favorite is the SuSE distribution). And "backup" includes application files as well. Identifying just which files these are, and where they are is not always easy. Clearly all your pictures and documents you've written and would qualify, but applications (and operating systems) usually have several configuration files, history files, backup files, index files, ... which it will save time to have copes of. But, if an application doesn't provide for saving these and reinstalling them over a fresh installtion of the application, ...  There will be problems here as well. You might have to reconfigure some or all of your applications (and the operating system too) after reinstallation. this is a pain, but may be unavoidable...\n\nThird, you must be certain that any new hardware you've installed will be recognized by the Windows boot routines at reinstallation time. It might be wise to start a reinstallation (with the intent of cancelling it essentially immediately) to test whether the BIOS will call up the Windows installation routines from wherever they are, and whether they will be able to find the new hardware. Since hardware support (ie, drivers and design troubleshooting) for 98SE has mostly been dropped, increasingly more hardware will not be supported for 98SE.  Without support, you'll have to write your own drivers -- not recommended.\n\nFourth, you must, when reinstalling, configure your software in ways which are compatible with how they used to be configured, lest there be odd (perhaps fatal) happenings from the incompatibilites. Some things don't matter -- like icon colors or the shape of the cursor, but some will.\n\nFifth, keep a record of what you did and why at each step of the way, starting before you begin backing up. Include all instructions (and options) and the immediate re
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Can you be more specific on what you are trying to do?\n\nbuild  computer?\n\nget a bare-bone system and upgrade it yourself?\n\ntechnical problems?\n\nSomething else?
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There are plenty of free applications for Windows on download sites such as download.com.\n\nIf you're talking about downloading the actual Windows 98, I don't think you can do that very well.  It's easier just to get the CD.
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If you want to do that, you have to get the CD for Windows 98 and put it in your CD-ROM and start the instalation. It will automatically get rid of Windows 98. I would recommend a new computer since no updates are available for that system.
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You cannot download Windows 98 from Microsoft, unlike what the person before me stated [and it would be nice, if you don't know what you are talking about, to remain silent]. \n\nWindows 98 is a legacy product. In other words, Microsoft no longer sells or supports it.\n\nYour best bet would be to ask around to people who fix computers and see if they have a copy, or to check with computer recyclers / graveyards; they often have install discs. Also, any computer science department at a nearby college will have some geek somewhere who has the install disc.\n\nEven if you could find a copy of Windows 98 on the Web, it would take a long time to download, even with broadband.
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Techniclaly, no, you need at least Windows 98 in order to use your XP upgrade.  But there are workarounds - for example, you'd have to install from Win 95 instead of from booting up.  See the second of the links below for details.
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If XP doesn't work I would try Win98. If you really want 95, look at ebay I am sure you can get a copy for $5 or so.\nhttp://cgi.ebay.com/1-DAY-ONLY-Full-Inst-Windows-95-Win-OS-operating-system_W0QQitemZ7233443216QQcategoryZ41883QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Check this site out: http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/upgrade1.htm\n\nPurchase upgrades from http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/ or http://www.watford.co.uk
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OF course u can! There wont be a single problem with that! But  I dont know whether u can upgrade ur win 2000 or not. I alawys start from the begining.
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You can't it has to be genuine windows to update
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well come to think of it i think 98 is a 1998 operating system.. today is 1rst Nov 06... do not by a new pc now.. wait for vista
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You can upgrade, but you need to create a new XP Pro CD with Service Pack 2 - the process is called slipstreaming.  See:
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Get a copy of Windows XP and install it.\n\n-J
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Re-Install Windows, this is the best way