[Tripod]MajorPayne
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Hey...
My dad is being frustrated. He tried to install the Windows XP Upgrade from Windows 98, which was on our 2.53 ghz P4 w/ a Gig of RAM, an FX 5200 and a little 12 G 5400 RPM HD. He bought a new 80 GB 7200 RPM drive, and hasn't installed it yet.
I TRIED to tell him just to buy an OEM copy of XP with the hard drive and just start all over, because it would be cleaner, faster, and easier in the long run, even though it would take some setup in the beginning, it would be less time than he would spend fighting with compatibility issues from the upgrade. And does he listen? No, but that's just me being angry because he specifically asked me what to do, then promptly discarded my advice, and now I don't want to fix it for him, because he wouldn't listen to me in the first place.
Well, he's banging on the keyboard and fussing and cussing and told me he wants to reinstall windows 98, which has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard, but humor me here. Can he just put the 98 CD in, and it will install 98 over top of XP and semi-work? He now thinks XP is a piece of crap, and I'm trying to tell him it's only slow because he didn't do a clean install and it's on a slow HD to begin with, but he won't have any of that. I think I'm just going to do all this myself in a day or 2, when I'm on spring break. I'm planning on putting his new hard drive in as a slave drive, then formatting it from within the XP install he has now, and then pulling the old drive, installing 98 on the new drive, then installing the upgrade XP CD. I will have to do that, since the "Upgrade" he bought at *Wal-Mart* ( ) will only install if a liscenced copy of 98, Me, or 2000 is present on the hard drive. This is really frustrating me, and if he had listened, he could have just bought an OEM XP cd that would work on a wiped hard drive and we wouldn't have this problem.
So, in summary:
Dad is pissed because he won't listen to me
Has XP installed over 98, it's giving him a bunch of crap (surprise, surprise)
Wants to reinstall 98 WITHOUT formatting
Can he do it?
All this could be avoided if he would just format and do a clean install, but he won't have any of that. He has to keep all his programs so they will (not) work.
My dad is being frustrated. He tried to install the Windows XP Upgrade from Windows 98, which was on our 2.53 ghz P4 w/ a Gig of RAM, an FX 5200 and a little 12 G 5400 RPM HD. He bought a new 80 GB 7200 RPM drive, and hasn't installed it yet.
I TRIED to tell him just to buy an OEM copy of XP with the hard drive and just start all over, because it would be cleaner, faster, and easier in the long run, even though it would take some setup in the beginning, it would be less time than he would spend fighting with compatibility issues from the upgrade. And does he listen? No, but that's just me being angry because he specifically asked me what to do, then promptly discarded my advice, and now I don't want to fix it for him, because he wouldn't listen to me in the first place.
Well, he's banging on the keyboard and fussing and cussing and told me he wants to reinstall windows 98, which has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard, but humor me here. Can he just put the 98 CD in, and it will install 98 over top of XP and semi-work? He now thinks XP is a piece of crap, and I'm trying to tell him it's only slow because he didn't do a clean install and it's on a slow HD to begin with, but he won't have any of that. I think I'm just going to do all this myself in a day or 2, when I'm on spring break. I'm planning on putting his new hard drive in as a slave drive, then formatting it from within the XP install he has now, and then pulling the old drive, installing 98 on the new drive, then installing the upgrade XP CD. I will have to do that, since the "Upgrade" he bought at *Wal-Mart* ( ) will only install if a liscenced copy of 98, Me, or 2000 is present on the hard drive. This is really frustrating me, and if he had listened, he could have just bought an OEM XP cd that would work on a wiped hard drive and we wouldn't have this problem.
So, in summary:
Dad is pissed because he won't listen to me
Has XP installed over 98, it's giving him a bunch of crap (surprise, surprise)
Wants to reinstall 98 WITHOUT formatting
Can he do it?
All this could be avoided if he would just format and do a clean install, but he won't have any of that. He has to keep all his programs so they will (not) work.