I recently installed the hard drive from my old computer to my present one.
The old drive used Windows 98. Can I reformat and install windows XP on the
old drive? If so, then how?
Second question: How I save programs from the old drive to the present one?

"k dann" wrote in message
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I recently installed the hard drive from my old computer to my present one.
The old drive used Windows 98. Can I reformat and install windows XP on
the
old drive? If so, then how?
Second question: How I save programs from the old drive to the present
one?




There's lots of issues, too many to discuss here. You might want to Google
the subject, and there are Win XP newsgroups - though the guys over there
are snobbish tweaks with little to no patience for newbies.

Win XP has a utility to migrate your old programs etc from the old computer
to the new one - you need everything installed and running, and both
computers networked together.


Mark Z.

You're really in the wrong group for this question, but here's a short
answer: if Windows XP supports "upgrading" from Windows 98, you should
be able to retain most, if not all, of your old applications. Go
search the Windows groups to be sure, tho.

Yes you can upgrade windows 98 to xp with the xp install disc.

"Mr. Land" wrote in message
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You're really in the wrong group for this question, but here's a short
answer: if Windows XP supports "upgrading" from Windows 98, you should
be able to retain most, if not all, of your old applications. Go
search the Windows groups to be sure, tho.