Installing XP

[Graham.J]

I have an old laptop which has windoze '95 installed on it.

I'd quite like to put XP on it but IIRC it isn't a direct upgrade so just buying the upgrade for XP won't work.

However, will I be able to install the full version of XP if I buy it?

Thanks in advance,

Graham

[Plotloss]

You're mates with BCA arent you?

He should have just what you need (or will do soon)

[Graham.J]

I am indeed.

I was looking at getting this but if I can get it for free that works for me.

Cheers, Matt

[touchingcloth]

If the laptop is only running 95 then am guessing that it is on the old side - are you sure that it up to the job of running xp. I upgraded an old laptop running 98 (333mhz and 128mb ram) and it ran so slowly that I had to take it off again. If I had paid for it I would have been mucho annoyed - if you can do it for free then it is worth a go, just make sure you have your 95 discs on standby.

S.

>> Edited by touchingcloth on Monday 5th December 16:37

[TheExcession]

I think it's unlikely you will get much joy out of a laptop that used to run 95 by upgrading it to XP.

XP wants, nay needs, as much RAM as you can throw at it and a farily serious processor to boot, likely your laptop just won't provide that.

What spec is it?

We're currently umming and ahhing over a new laptop and thinking the models that are shipping with 256MB RAM really aren't going to cut very well it with XP - I'd be pretty surprised to find a Win95 laptop running with that amount of RAM.

[lockstock2sb]

Yep XP is a no go on anything that was shipped with or is running 95. You *might* get away with 2000 with some heavy tweaking but otherwise i think 98 might be your only hope...

[Muncher]

Win 98 SE will be your best bet

[Graham.J]

The spec was the only thing I was really worried about with XP. I may look into Win 98 SE though, thanks for the heads up

[GlenMH]

lockstock2sb said:

Yep XP is a no go on anything that was shipped with or is running 95. You *might* get away with 2000 with some heavy tweaking but otherwise i think 98 might be your only hope...

Depends on the laptop - I took a Dell latitude CPx (450Mhz P3 processor) from 95 to 98SE and then on to XP but I upgraded both the hard disk (it died) and the ram to half a gig. Not the fasted machine and won't play full screen video but OK for browsing/e-mail etc. I would suggest that this is the minimum spec though....

Glen