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"upgrading ME to XP"

Hello there, a quick question to the far more intelligent people.

If I download the XP home upgrade, will all my documents, mp3s and games remain intact or will they be deleted?

sorry for the simple question but I'm stoopid.

Thanks in advance! : )

dude the home upgrade is alot of money! It's like £90!

§n][pe® wrote:
> upgrading from 98 is pants.....

Lucky he is upgrading from ME then aint it sniper lol :P

upgrading from 98 is pants.....

A clean install is better anyway. Just back up all your docs, save games and mp3s beforehand, and reinstall your software. Alternatively stick everything you want to keep on a seperate partition - but back-up anything you really want to keep as a precaution.

You should buy XP anyway; an upgrade really isn't that expensive, especially considering that it is a much, much better OS than anything Microsoft have come up with before. The only acceptable thing to pirate is Photoshop (and other ridiculously overpriced apps) if you are a poor student or a small and curious child.

mess wrote:
> my plan was to download XP off Kazaa and install it.

In that case....I hope it all goes horribly wrong and you lose all your files! I wouldn't trust a downloaded copy of XP off of Kazaa as far as I could throw ten ton weight.

Go and buy an upgrade or the full version!

Buy the copy, don't go admitting things like that on here, you'll get banned!

For an OS, you need to buy it, if anything goes wrong then you're stuffed if you downloaded it, you'll also have the problem of not having a unique CD key which could mean that you won't be able to download any patches...

Buy it, don't be a pikey git!

my plan was to download XP off Kazaa and install it. I just want to make sure that the installation will retain all my files.

Download, do you mean install?

If you mean install is your Hard Drive partitioned? ie have you got a C drive and a D drive with all your documents and mp3s etc on the D drive?

If that's the case then your ok because you can get XP to install onto your C drive and all your documents wont be wiped clean.

If this isn't the case then your going to have to back them all up (to be on the safe side) and then install XP over the top.

Either that or get a program called Partition Magic and partition your hard drive and move all your documents onto the new drive.

Hello there, a quick question to the far more intelligent people.

If I download the XP home upgrade, will all my documents, mp3s and games remain intact or will they be deleted?

sorry for the simple question but I'm stoopid.

Thanks in advance! : )