Having responded on the basis of what you said you were going to do;
I realised that it may be better to advise that you create an extra
partition on an appropriate location on the drive,
and either install your new version of the OS into that,
or copy the old install into the new ( primary ) partition, set that
partition as bootable active visible etc.
Verify that it will boot and run
Then hide the original partition and check the new one again
Then consider installing the new OS into the original, size adjusted
partition
- that should allow you to recover from an install failure, or get back data
you didn't remember,
especially as a new install will require you to re-install, or check the
specifications/setup of all the applications, codec's, cookies and
specialisations
you currently enjoy using without thinking about them
Don't forget the email folders, addressbook and rules from your user id's,
your main admin id, and the backup admin id
Also - WinXP install - modem needs to be connected and running, but not
connected to the outside world
and you will need the SP2 CD as well as sets of fixes for things like your
AV, CD/DVD drive and application
JimB
--
----------------------------------------
The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
