Driver question

[vetplus40]

If one were to upgrade from winME to winXP would your hardware drivers need to be re-installed?,or would the upgrade just use the exisiting ones?.

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[Toejam31]

The installation of the operating system will replace all of your hardware drivers, when the components are detected during setup. Those devices found that Windows could not provide a driver, you will have to install manually.

WinME and WinXP are very different operating systems, and so, the answer is >> no ... the upgrade will not just use the existing WinME drivers already on your system.

You might find these pages useful:

<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.asp" target="_new">Windows XP Upgrade Advisor</A>

<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/checkcompat.asp" target="_new">Windows XP Home Edition: Check Compatibility</A>

FYI, it is always advisable to do a clean installation, rather than an upgrade, if you wish for the computer to be stable and relatively error-free. And it is possible to perform a clean installation with a WinXP upgrade CD, if you own a full, licensed version of a previous version of Windows (except for Windows 95).

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[Rubberbband]

Do yourself a favor; back up your data then format (NTFS) and do a clean instal of XP. This will ensure you take full advantage of XP's stability.

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[vetplus40]

Well I goofed because I checked the upgrade option ,which had "preferred" written beside it.This is on a backup hard drive anyway.I was wanting to some some compatability checking before making it the primary o.s.........

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[willyd]

yes you did,I would just do it again however I wouldn't suggest NTFS filing structure I had nothing but problems with it I loaded with fat32 and it's all better now. unfortunately if you already did it the only way to go back is repartition trust me I know.

 

[vetplus40]

I'm not sure,but when I formatted the hard drive, I might have used FAT 32 because I had WinME on it first.

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[CALV]

I have to disagree, ntfs is definately the way to go, it is far more reliable than fat32, doesnt fragment as easy, and has security/efs etc that ntfs offer


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