Would it be possible to upgrade windows 98 to windows xp by installation CD of XP without any loss of data?

Only if you were to save all your things on a cd

I lost no data when I did it to my 300 megahertz laptop. I eventualy lost the data though. When i put 98 back on it. It ran miserably. If your computer is old enough where it has 98 as the origional OS, I'd think twice before I did this upgrade. Any processer slower than 700 mhz is going to be sllllloooooooowww with xp on it.

How can I install Windows 98 after Windows XP?

This procedure assumes that Windows XP is installed on drive C:

Drive C: must be FAT16 or FAT32 to be able to install Windows 98 after XP is already installed. The 98/Me installation routine cannot write to an NTFS partition.

You must have a second hard disk or partition formatted for FAT16/32 in order to be able to install Windows 98/Me.

As always, installing 98/Me to the same partition as Windows XP is Not recommended!

I recommend the use of a Windows 98 Startup disk for this procedure. You should ensure that DEBUG.EXE is on your Startup disk. On a 98 Startup disk, created from Add/Remove Programs, its in the EBD.CAB file on the Startup disk. For a 98 Startup disk created from FAT32EBD.EXE its on the floppy

Installing Windows 98

Use a Win98 Startup disk (with CD support) to boot your computer.

Insert your Win98 CD into the CD Rom drive.

At the A: prompt type X:\Win98\Setup.exe where X: is your CD-ROM drive.

Proceed with the install. When prompted for the install location, you'll see C:\Windows.000. Choose Other directory and change this to the drive you wish to install 98 to and name the folder Windows (or something else if you prefer).

Complete the Win98 install. Allow the computer to boot into Win98.

-Repairing the Windows XP Boot Loader-

1Create a Win98 Startup Disk

2Create a Notepad file with the following entries, exactly as shown...

L 100 2 0 1

N C:\BOOTSECT.DOS

R BX

0

R CX

200

W

Q

3 Save the file to the Win98 Startup Disk as READ.SCR

4 Boot the computer with the Win98 Startup Disk and at the A: prompt type ...

DEBUG <READ.SCR

Steps 1 - 4 create the BOOTSECT.DOS file needed to boot Win98. You may need to use the ATTRIB C:\BOOTSECT.DOS -S -H -R command if BOOTSECT.DOS already exists and you get an error when trying to recreate it.

5 Configure your computer to boot from the CD drive. This is done in the BIOS, or your computer may offer the option at startup if it detects a bootable CD. If your computer does not support booting from CD-Rom, you should also be able to boot with a 98 Startup disk, and run WINNT.EXE from the I386 folder of your XP CD.

6 insert your XP CD and boot from it.

7 You'll see some files being copied, then you'll be presented with a choice of installing or repairing an existing installation. Choose Repair.

8 You'll be asked which XP installation you want to log into. Enter 1. There is usually only one installation.

9 You'll be prompted for the Administrator password. For Home, the default password is blank, so just hit Enter. For Pro, enter the same password you did during setup for the Administrator account (this is not the same as the password for an Admin level account. It must be the Administrator account password).

10 At the C:\Windows prompt, type FIXBOOT. You'll be prompted to confirm. Do so.

11 When FIXBOOT is finished, remove the XP CD and type EXIT and the machine will reboot.

Reconfigure your computer to boot from the hard drive if necessary.

12 You will now get the XP Boot loader with your choice of operating system

It Workes for sure and always have a backup with a CD, DVD, USB JUMPDRIVE ect

Cheers

Back up your System if you want to upgrade

I would suggest backing up your data files, and installing XP from scratch. It is much better than an Upgrade from 98 to XP.

Yes, so long as you have the Upgrade version of Windows XP. On the windows XP installation disk there is a utility for migrating everything over for you.

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Yes you will be fine just make sure you choose the upgrade option and follow the onscreen instructions.

no u need to boot it all to a stoarge hard drive and then load it back on the new soft ware better than a cd

Yes, follow the on scren directions. I would save any unreplaceable files to disk.

No, I tried it last year and some of my data was lost