WIN XP PRO With/Without WIN 98!!!

[bala4digit]

Hi guys...iam gonna install win xp pro with sp2....so pls suggest shud i keep win 98 or do it without win98!!

my main use of pc is office,internet nd playing latest games!!

HELP!!!

BYE!!!

------MOJOJOJO-----

 

[sknowonweb]

Keep 98

Use XP for Games Net and Office. But Internet is a good source for viruses to transmit no matter how hard ur security is.And few h/w and s/w related problems discussed in these forums point out XPs failure at many chances.If u are having a backup software to back u up in saving data during sys crashes then u can rely on win XP alone.Else untill u warm up with these issues install 98 in a partition to help u recover ur situation during crisis.

Important fact is 98 will not recogniose NTFS partitions.so if u want to use 98 as a failsafe ur critical datas must be in a Fat 32 partition. Strangely few latest software wont work in fta32 they need ntfs to run.Decide on yourself.

 

[bala4digit]

Re: Keep 98

Use XP for Games Net and Office. But Internet is a good source for viruses to transmit no matter how hard ur security is.And few h/w and s/w related problems discussed in these forums point out XPs failure at many chances.If u are having a backup software to back u up in saving data during sys crashes then u can rely on win XP alone.Else untill u warm up with these issues install 98 in a partition to help u recover ur situation during crisis.

Important fact is 98 will not recogniose NTFS partitions.so if u want to use 98 as a failsafe ur critical datas must be in a Fat 32 partition. Strangely few latest software wont work in fta32 they need ntfs to run.Decide on yourself.

backup???....wat to backup ....da registry???.....will spybot backup will do or else...suggest me a gud backup sftwr!!!

wat's NTFS nd FAT32 partition>????

 

[theraven]

NTFS and FAT32 are filetypes
FAT32 is the older one and ofcourse win98 supports it
but it doesnt support NTFS
the differences are posted on the forum u will just have to search
NTFS is better
and so is winxo SP2 if used correctly
if ur happy with 98 then cool
but if u really watn winxp then theres really no point in keepin win98 i feel
so just go ahead and format ur disk using ntfs file system and install winxp
the option to format using ntfs filesystem will be there when u are installin winxp as a fresh isntall or booting from the setup cd to install

 

[bala4digit]

thanx 4 dat!!!

BYE!!

-MOJOJOJO-

 

[valtea]

I recomend a fresh install of winXP in a NTFS file format and keep the other drives in FAT32 (just in case something goes wrong).

Personally what i do is i partition my HDD into 4 drives. C is NTFS with winXP installed. the rest are fat32 so that if anything goes wrong i can access mt HDD with a boot disk. And i have a working Ghost file for win98 (clean install with my drivers) and XP (clean install with my drivers.

You may try this too.

 

[bala4digit]

will u please tell me how to do it with all commands???

BYE!!

-MOJOJOJO-

 

[satbir]

mojo................ if u have an old sys.............. like a p2 or earlier................ i strongly recommend that u stick to windows 98 as xp will run damn slow on such a sys............ otherwise........... win xp is not a prob( if u r a proud owner of a P IV). And ya FAT stands for File Allocation Table......... it maintains a record of all the files stored on ur disk into a table........... NTFS is New Technology File System......... it is faster than FAT..... supports compression and more secure.......... and as theraven said ........ Win 98 does not support NTFS

 

[bala4digit]

iam having p4 nd 256 ram ....so system won't be a problem...i want those commands???!!!


BYE!!!


-MOJOJOJO-

 

[suman2005]

I have 2 HDD as NTFS and an external USB HDD which has Win98SE installed - on this drive I have the freeware READNTFS.EXE which lets me access the NTFS drives from Win98SE or the DOS Prompt. On the external USB drive I have Ghost installed and via DOS batch files I can make backup images of the HDDs. Recently I have changed to Acronis True Image which I find much better than Ghost for backups - I run Acronis off a bootable CDR.

 

[bala4digit]

so u suggest me 2 hav win 98 too and an back up by acronis....rite???....can any1 explain wat's an backup cd.....wat does it do....how to make it? nd how to use it???

HELP PLSS!!!


BYE!!

-MOJOJOJO-

 

[vignesh]

I think a fresh copy is the best option.