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Alan - 23 Mar 2004 22:37 GMT

My stepson has bought a 2nd hand pc which has been
converted to fat32 on w98se .he has tried to load wxp ,
but there is not enough memory as far as i can make
out .there is one partitoin of 2055mb and one of 4mb and
neither can be deleted .i think it has a total of 2gb on
the hard drive . can anyone help as my knowledge is very
limited.

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Jeff Richards - 24 Mar 2004 00:23 GMT

XP questions are best asked in an XP newsgroup.

FAT32 is not the issue, as XP will install on a FAT32 partition just fine.
However, the available free disk space total might not be enough for an
upgrade to XP, even if the total disk space is enough for a new install.
Have you confirmed that the machine meets the minimum hardware requirements
for XP?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];314865
System Requirements for Windows XP Operating Systems

What exactly is the procedure you are following and what exactly happens?

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> My stepson has bought a 2nd hand pc which has been
> converted to fat32 on w98se .he has tried to load wxp ,
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> the hard drive . can anyone help as my knowledge is very
> limited.

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philo - 24 Mar 2004 01:06 GMT

if you format the drive you should just be able to fit XP on a 2 gig
drive...
but since there would be no room left...you really should stick with win98!

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