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Default 07-23-2003, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by pest
I understood what you meant, but my advice stands - you want a crispy, fresh windows install. The couple of days it takes to get everything back to normal and installed is well worth it. If you upgrade an old win98 install *shudders* to XP, the quality of your xp will only be as good as *shudders* your old 98.
Exactly. I don't believe you can convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS one the OS is already installed, not to mention the location of all of you registry keys and system files (System to System32) will be different, so your programs will not regonize that change.

Just because the disk says it's able to upgrade does not mean it will do it properly.
  
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