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"Andy Mabbett" <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <ah939k$ife$1@helle.btinternet.com>, jasee
> <jasee@btinternet.com> writes
> >> Personally I'd recommend NOT upgrading on top of WIn 98
> >> but reformatting the drive and reinstalling fromscratch.
> >> You'll have much less problem long term that way.
> >
> >Personally, I'd suggest dual booting to separate partitions would be my
> >recommendation if you've a program to shrink the existing big
> >partition, if thats what you've got. (like partition magic)
>
> What are the advantages of the latter?

Well you (obviously) retain all the settings, programs you've got with W98,
and you've got a totally independent new installation of W2K which you can
switch to at start up if you want to. You will probably need to install
applications again (so you've actually got two of them on the same hard
disk) but you should be able to share data files. Disks are so big nowadays
that the space occupied by having two sets of each program doesn't usually
matter much. If (for some reason) W98 really screws up you should always be
able to start W2K and maybe check the W98 partition for damaged files etc.
The main difficulty is if your disk is one big partition, only a program
like Partition magic can shrink a partition to give you free space (assuming
you've got quite a bit of free space in your existing partition) so W2K can
create a new partition. However, Partition Magic 6 is now going for
virtually nothing on Ebay and is capable of resizing Fat32 partitions
(though it won't resize W2K NTFS partitions).
When you've fully converted everything to W2K, and feel confident in using
that, you can eliminate everything but a few root files from the W98
partition and boot directly to W2K and use the W98 partition for data
storage etc.