RE: Upgrade Win95 to 98 or 2000?

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Dee - 14 Jan 2004 14:28 GMT

I would like to upgrade an old Win95 machine w/64mb ram
and partioned drives to 98 or 2000. Is this possible? Do
the drives have to stay partitioned? I'm not sure what to
do with it. Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Haggis - 14 Jan 2004 14:35 GMT

If you are not going to have more than 64mb of ram I would suggest getting a
win98SE "upgrade" CD off ebay.

all your partitions would stay intact

> I would like to upgrade an old Win95 machine w/64mb ram
> and partioned drives to 98 or 2000. Is this possible? Do
> the drives have to stay partitioned? I'm not sure what to
> do with it. Thanks for any help you can offer.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 14 Jan 2004 17:03 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>I would like to upgrade an old Win95 machine w/64mb ram
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>.
>I have a test machine that I used a 98SE upgrade and I

had no problems with partitions. I also believe the only
upgrade path from Win95 to WinXP or Win2000 is to Win ME
first. HTH

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Jeff Richards - 14 Jan 2004 20:42 GMT

With only 64Mb of memory, W2000 would run very poorly. W98 will run
adequately, provided you keep things simple.

The hard drives must be partitioned for all operating systems, however you
are probably using more than one partition at the moment. Windows 98 will
work just fine with the existing drive partitions. If the partition type is
FAT then you can convert it to FAT32 when W98 is installed, and you will get
more usable space in the partition. The partition size will not change.
When the partitions are FAT32 you have the option of combining them, but
there are no Windows tools to do this - you need a third-party utility.
There are some advantages to combining partitions, but there are also some
drawbacks.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

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