Has anyone ever upgraded NT Workstation to XP Pro? Can you? Are all of
the shares, drives etc preserved in tact? Any issues from this?
Looking for the voice of experience here ....

"Wiz" <mskmywvcaqs@easypost.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever upgraded NT Workstation to XP Pro? Can you? Are all of
> the shares, drives etc preserved in tact? Any issues from this?
> Looking for the voice of experience here ....

I have only done one system, and it does work, but you need to have Service
Pack 6 installed on NT before you do the upgrade. Also, make sure that all
of your devices are XP compatible and have drivers. Also, this will NOT work
with XP home. You have to upgrade to XP Professional.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ing/matrix.asp

You'll also need more RAM to run XP efficiently, especially compared to XP.
Depending on what you use the PC for, I would use a minimum of 256MB RAM.
You can use 128MB, but graphics and such will not be speedy.

Chris

"Wiz" <mskmywvcaqs@easypost.com> wrote in message
news:40C89AB6.4EC6C7A1@easypost.com...
> Has anyone ever upgraded NT Workstation to XP Pro? Can you? Are all of
> the shares, drives etc preserved in tact? Any issues from this?
> Looking for the voice of experience here ....

I have only done one system, and it does work, but you need to have Service
Pack 6 installed on NT before you do the upgrade. Also, make sure that all
of your devices are XP compatible and have drivers. Also, this will NOT work
with XP home. You have to upgrade to XP Professional.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ing/matrix.asp

You'll also need more RAM to run XP efficiently, especially compared to XP.
Depending on what you use the PC for, I would use a minimum of 256MB RAM.
You can use 128MB, but graphics and such will not be speedy.

Chris

It's a file server and I need USB (amoung other things) and it's a
pretty complicated setup of permissions, shares partitions etc. which is
why I want to upgrade as opposed to clean install. BTW it is sp6a.
Thanx for the input

c wrote:
>
> "Wiz" <mskmywvcaqs@easypost.com> wrote in message
> news:40C89AB6.4EC6C7A1@easypost.com...
> > Has anyone ever upgraded NT Workstation to XP Pro? Can you? Are all of
> > the shares, drives etc preserved in tact? Any issues from this?
> > Looking for the voice of experience here ....
>
> I have only done one system, and it does work, but you need to have Service
> Pack 6 installed on NT before you do the upgrade. Also, make sure that all
> of your devices are XP compatible and have drivers. Also, this will NOT work
> with XP home. You have to upgrade to XP Professional.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ing/matrix.asp
>
> You'll also need more RAM to run XP efficiently, especially compared to XP.
> Depending on what you use the PC for, I would use a minimum of 256MB RAM.
> You can use 128MB, but graphics and such will not be speedy.
>
> Chris

It's a file server and I need USB (amoung other things) and it's a
pretty complicated setup of permissions, shares partitions etc. which is
why I want to upgrade as opposed to clean install. BTW it is sp6a.
Thanx for the input

c wrote:
>
> "Wiz" <mskmywvcaqs@easypost.com> wrote in message
> news:40C89AB6.4EC6C7A1@easypost.com...
> > Has anyone ever upgraded NT Workstation to XP Pro? Can you? Are all of
> > the shares, drives etc preserved in tact? Any issues from this?
> > Looking for the voice of experience here ....
>
> I have only done one system, and it does work, but you need to have Service
> Pack 6 installed on NT before you do the upgrade. Also, make sure that all
> of your devices are XP compatible and have drivers. Also, this will NOT work
> with XP home. You have to upgrade to XP Professional.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ing/matrix.asp
>
> You'll also need more RAM to run XP efficiently, especially compared to XP.
> Depending on what you use the PC for, I would use a minimum of 256MB RAM.
> You can use 128MB, but graphics and such will not be speedy.
>
> Chris