Solve : XP requirement?

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Answer» i have a computer with windows 98 and i want to PUT Windows XP on it and i met some of the requirments and others i didnt becausei done have enough free space on my disc drive am i able to earase the whole ocmputer then put it on there?Do you have the full XP install disk or the upgrade disk?full install im not sure if my computer is good enoughe because i look at me drive c and it says the capacity it can hold is 1.96GB is that bad for it?The official MS minimum disk space free is 1.5Gb so you'd be pushing it on 1.95Gb. If you do not have multiple partitions looks likely you need a bigger hdd. See here for min specs - note that some say 15Gb: http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/aa011007a.htmi dont think it will work cuz my computer has 64mb ram and they say min. is 128Yes, you're correct Ted - looks like a major hardware upgrade for you if you really want to intall XP.i htink i will just install windows 98 or se again thanks for your help Quote i dont think it will work cuz my computer has 64mb ram and they say min. is 128 Dont try and run windows XP under 256MB of Ram and even then that is pushing it to run XP, with 512 MB everthing works FINE with that Ram anything under it makes for HARD going, You need at LEAST a 10GB hard drive.128MB RAM is enough, but it will not go very fast. You will need at least 7GB of space for Windows XP with SP2. Approximately 3 to 4GB with SP1. If your computer was designed for Windows 98 only you can safely assume Windows XP will not install. Quote ...Dont try and run windows XP under 256MB of Ram and even then that is pushing it to run XP, with 512 MB everthing works fine with that Ram anything under it makes for hard going, You need at least a 10GB hard drive... I actually did some testing of my own. WinXP-SP2 actually booted and ran (very slowly) on a P3-500 w/ 64MB RAM. Hard drive ran continuously. With 384MB on the same computer with P3-700, it's fast enough for anything but gaming. On a different P3-500 w/160MB RAM it ran faster than with Win2k. Hard drive partition size on all was about 5GB. I use a COMPAQ Deskpro with 500Mhz Intel Pentium III and 384MB RAM. Went from 128 to 256 to 384. The HDD is indeed accessed more often when you have so little RAM. Plus, when multi-tasking, the computer had a tendency to become unstable or even crash with only 128MB RAM.

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i have a computer with windows 98 and i want to PUT Windows XP on it and i met some of the requirments and others i didnt becausei done have enough free space on my disc drive am i able to earase the whole ocmputer then put it on there?Do you have the full XP install disk or the upgrade disk?full install
im not sure if my computer is good enoughe because i look at me drive c and it says the capacity it can hold is 1.96GB is that bad for it?The official MS minimum disk space free is 1.5Gb so you'd be pushing it on 1.95Gb. If you do not have multiple partitions looks likely you need a bigger hdd.

See here for min specs - note that some say 15Gb: http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/aa011007a.htmi dont think it will work cuz my computer has 64mb ram and they say min. is 128Yes, you're correct Ted - looks like a major hardware upgrade for you if you really want to intall XP.i htink i will just install windows 98 or se again thanks for your help Quote

i dont think it will work cuz my computer has 64mb ram and they say min. is 128

Dont try and run windows XP under 256MB of Ram and even then that is pushing it to run XP, with 512 MB everthing works FINE with that Ram anything under it makes for HARD going, You need at LEAST a 10GB hard drive.128MB RAM is enough, but it will not go very fast. You will need at least 7GB of space for Windows XP with SP2. Approximately 3 to 4GB with SP1.

If your computer was designed for Windows 98 only you can safely assume Windows XP will not install. Quote

...Dont try and run windows XP under 256MB of Ram and even then that is pushing it to run XP, with 512 MB everthing works fine with that Ram anything under it makes for hard going, You need at least a 10GB hard drive...

I actually did some testing of my own. WinXP-SP2 actually booted and ran (very slowly) on a P3-500 w/ 64MB RAM. Hard drive ran continuously. With 384MB on the same computer with P3-700, it's fast enough for anything but gaming. On a different P3-500 w/160MB RAM it ran faster than with Win2k. Hard drive partition size on all was about 5GB.
I use a COMPAQ Deskpro with 500Mhz Intel Pentium III and 384MB RAM. Went from 128 to 256 to 384.

The HDD is indeed accessed more often when you have so little RAM. Plus, when multi-tasking, the computer had a tendency to become unstable or even crash with only 128MB RAM.

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