Jeff Richards

Sigh. Even that is not true. The W2K machine I use here is an upgrade from
W98 and it runs just fine. Years ago I did dozens of upgrades from W98 to
W2k and had only a few problems. While it is true that if problems appear
the only reasonable way to fix them (in terms of time and effort) is to do a
clean install, it is not true that an upgrade from W98 to W2K will always
have problems.

Finding W2K drivers to suit a machine that was originally delivered with W98
is likely to be a much greater problem than any issues with upgrading the
OS.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Win2k does not require a clean install.
> It merely requires a clean install if you want it to work!
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philo

Jeff Richards wrote:
> Sigh. Even that is not true. The W2K machine I use here is an upgrade from
> W98 and it runs just fine. Years ago I did dozens of upgrades from W98 to
> W2k and had only a few problems. While it is true that if problems appear
> the only reasonable way to fix them (in terms of time and effort) is to do a
> clean install, it is not true that an upgrade from W98 to W2K will always
> have problems.
>
> Finding W2K drivers to suit a machine that was originally delivered with W98
> is likely to be a much greater problem than any issues with upgrading the
> OS.

Not worth wasting one's time really.
Through the years I've done hundreds of installs (probably closer to a
few thousand)
My record is that I've never had a clean install fail, and I don't think
I've ever had an upgrade work 100% correclty...so I have stopped
bothering with upgrades years ago.

As to Win2k dirvers, yes back when win2k first came out there were
problems with a lot of drivers not being avail...
that was a long time ago. Of course the H/W today is probably too new
for Win2k support.

Since the machines I setup are mostly in the P-II , P-III vintage...
I can generally get win2k drivers for everything. The only exception is
that Isometimes have a hard time getting on-board video working...
so have to pop in a PCI card

Jeff Richards

Your comment was, and I quote "It merely requires a clean install if you
want it to work!" That is demonstrably not true, and represents bad advice.
If you gave up on upgrades so many years ago then you are hardly in a
position to comment on whether or not they will work. And if you tried lots
of them and couldn't get them to work then I can only guess that you were
doing something wrong.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Jeff Richards wrote:
>> Sigh. Even that is not true. The W2K machine I use here is an upgrade
>> from W98 and it runs just fine. Years ago I did dozens of upgrades from
>> W98 to W2k and had only a few problems. While it is true that if
>> problems appear the only reasonable way to fix them (in terms of time and
>> effort) is to do a clean install, it is not true that an upgrade from W98
>> to W2K will always have problems.
>>
>> Finding W2K drivers to suit a machine that was originally delivered with
>> W98 is likely to be a much greater problem than any issues with upgrading
>> the OS.
>
> Not worth wasting one's time really.
> Through the years I've done hundreds of installs (probably closer to a few
> thousand)
> My record is that I've never had a clean install fail, and I don't think
> I've ever had an upgrade work 100% correclty...so I have stopped bothering
> with upgrades years ago.
>
> As to Win2k dirvers, yes back when win2k first came out there were
> problems with a lot of drivers not being avail...
> that was a long time ago. Of course the H/W today is probably too new
> for Win2k support.
>
> Since the machines I setup are mostly in the P-II , P-III vintage...
> I can generally get win2k drivers for everything. The only exception is
> that Isometimes have a hard time getting on-board video working...
> so have to pop in a PCI card