If I dont like xp I wanna change back without loseing anything.
2006-08-06 23:08:45 · 9 answers · asked by Petzl 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Yes you can, just while installing when it asks for New Installation or Upgrade or Overwrite, Say New Installation (and when ask for location Select the other drive rather where u have ur win98.", and viola it will install win xp there, but when u boot, it will bring Win XP as ur default but it will wait there for 30 secs, so that if u want to boot in Win98, you can change to win98.
2006-08-06 23:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Syed Irfanulla 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can depending on if your hard drive has enough space on it, due to how many programs you got on it.
Plus if your system hardware handles the minimum requirements for the operating system (Windows XP) to run on it I would suggest you upgrade as soon as possible, since Microsoft has ended its support for 98, and if vunerablity happens in 98 you will not be protected.
And if that happens you can kiss your computer good buy and have to install a newer operating system anyway or risk returning the computer to its original state only to go through the same thing again when your computer crashes.
Otherwise if you just want to see and get a feel of what its like go down to your nearest computer store or retailer that have some on display and play around with one, all of them have Windows XP so it doesnt matter which one you look at.
2006-08-07 06:30:27 · answer #2 · answered by xtechmods 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a negative sorry. I think you will defiantely be happy with XP. But if you are not I would recommend saving all the important stuff on 98 to a hard drive or disc so that you can recover all the information.
2006-08-07 06:13:36 · answer #3 · answered by Shady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes dual boot, make two partitions when you reformat install XP on one and windows 98 on the other, both have to be formatted in FAT file system not NTFS
2006-08-07 06:12:59 · answer #4 · answered by fa2a38 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first u format ur hard disk in three disk then in first disk u load or install 98 there .after that u insert xp cd and then u install it in another drive
2006-08-07 06:14:38 · answer #5 · answered by sachin k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
U can install 98 on another drive, and then after install it will always ask u wich one u want to use, but watch out not to erase anything while installing.......
2006-08-07 06:15:03 · answer #6 · answered by moarteainvacanta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yah ofcourse you can. just install XP with your 98 with it
2006-08-07 06:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by kryptonboy22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can.. but win98 use FAt32 as default file system.. and winXp use ntfs file system (for better peformance).
if u want to use both.. i sugest that u make another partition, and install your XP on your new ntfs partition.
2006-08-07 06:14:00 · answer #8 · answered by ~FriEnD~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can but your computer can get virus
2006-08-07 06:15:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋