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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: so i was given this pc....... |
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| it has win2000 on it i think (not sure i have to gather wires for it). Im wondering what this would req to upgrade to xp pro. I just wanna know if it needs anything special or just install xp?
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Just pop the disk in and install it.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| HornyAZNBoy wrote: | | Just pop the disk in and install it. |
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FullyAwesome I post too much
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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it wouldn't do any harm to just "pop the disk in", but if it's a really old computer that's quite slow it might not run too well on xp, but chances are it probably will lol.
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Holy crap i cant. The hard disk is only 8 GB. ITS A WINDOWS 98 I WAS LIED TO. So i put in my old xp hdisk(80gb) and now its says failed to load boot image please insert boot disk, or something along them lines. If i make the boot disk for winxp pro and reformate it should work right?
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| HEROXOOT wrote: | | Holy crap i cant. The hard disk is only 8 GB. ITS A WINDOWS 98 I WAS LIED TO. So i put in my old xp hdisk(80gb) and now its says failed to load boot image please insert boot disk, or something along them lines. If i make the boot disk for winxp pro and reformate it should work right? |
In theory, yes. Be sure to back things up as needed before reformatting.
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FullyAwesome I post too much
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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i have no idea what you just said, but yeah make sure that you have backups of everything you need and a boot disk won't do any harm either.
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok well im working on making the boot disc. But im having problems burning at the moment.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| HEROXOOT wrote: | | Ok well im working on making the boot disc. But im having problems burning at the moment. |
lol do computers from back then even have cd burners? they use floppy discs as boot discs don't they?
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| fullyawesome wrote: | | HEROXOOT wrote: | | Ok well im working on making the boot disc. But im having problems burning at the moment. |
lol do computers from back then even have cd burners? they use floppy discs as boot discs don't they? | meh i put my old dvd drive in it. FRom my old xp pc thats motherboard died.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| HEROXOOT wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | HEROXOOT wrote: | | Ok well im working on making the boot disc. But im having problems burning at the moment. |
lol do computers from back then even have cd burners? they use floppy discs as boot discs don't they? | meh i put my old dvd drive in it. FRom my old xp pc thats motherboard died. |
lol wat a mess. a computer with windows 2000 with a dvd drive in it, would that even work? well have fun making a mess lol, i wouldn't waste my time on that piece of junk unless it was a top computer back in those days.
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Hero I'm a spammer
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| fullyawesome wrote: | | HEROXOOT wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | HEROXOOT wrote: | | Ok well im working on making the boot disc. But im having problems burning at the moment. |
lol do computers from back then even have cd burners? they use floppy discs as boot discs don't they? | meh i put my old dvd drive in it. FRom my old xp pc thats motherboard died. |
lol wat a mess. a computer with windows 2000 with a dvd drive in it, would that even work? well have fun making a mess lol, i wouldn't waste my time on that piece of junk unless it was a top computer back in those days. | It turned out to be win 98. Even if it doesnt it will after it gets drivers.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| HEROXOOT wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | HEROXOOT wrote: | | fullyawesome wrote: | | HEROXOOT wrote: | | Ok well im working on making the boot disc. But im having problems burning at the moment. |
lol do computers from back then even have cd burners? they use floppy discs as boot discs don't they? | meh i put my old dvd drive in it. FRom my old xp pc thats motherboard died. |
lol wat a mess. a computer with windows 2000 with a dvd drive in it, would that even work? well have fun making a mess lol, i wouldn't waste my time on that piece of junk unless it was a top computer back in those days. | It turned out to be win 98. Even if it doesnt it will after it gets drivers. |
yeah sorry i meant 98 lol, but anyway gl and i hope it all works for you.
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