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Hi

While you could potentially do this, in reality its not a task to try for a few reasons,
1. is that will the Windows98 based PCs hardware run XP in the first place?
2. the biggy is that the hardware is likely to be different thus the devices drivers you would clone/image across would be different, ending in many issues actually booting the PC and you you did you could delete most of the drivers and udpate with the ones for that hardware but its not always going to work, I know back in the day when XP was first released their where some that tried this with sucess, but others that didnt.

Sadly you cannot just format it and copy the files from your preview XP installed HDD, I wish that was an option as it would make re-installing Windows easier.


It would be much quicker to re-install XP from scratch if you had an OS disk on that HDD and PC and then transfer your files across, but would need to check that that PCs hardware as in Motherboard, Audio and Graphics has XP drivers available before you start the task.

How did you do that as I didnt know that their was a download available to go from Win98 to XP from Microsoft, but then I may have forgotten of an OEM like COmpaq offered this route.

 

You also can not use the same XP serial # on both Compaqs, even if they are the same model. I have three Dell Dimension 2400s in the house and each computer has it's own unique XP serial number.