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| #1 By 2062 (216.161.155.148) at Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:01:31 AM |
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Sometimes it is a very good idea to uninstall the software/driver before upgrading. For instance for some printers if you dont uninstall the printer before upgrading, it might not work or it might list the printer twice. Since you have a dell just go to dell.com and make sure you have all the updates for your model. Also, backup your critical data before upgrading. If you use outlook export your .pst file to another partition or media. Save your favorites, quicken data, anything of value. Scan for viruses too, if you upgrade with the sircam virus on the system, it might delete all your email and favorites. After youve scanned for viruses, uninstall norton av before upgrading. You could disable the norton av, however sometimes this conflicts with setup, better safe than sorry.
Here's some other tips that will make the upgrade much smoother and trouble free. Uninstall any cd burning software, antivirus, anything norton, goback, anything by roxio such as directcd, any firewalls, partitioning software such as partition magic. Use msconfig to clean boot the machine. So start > run > msconfig, choose selective startup, uncheck everything, and restart. Copy the cd to the hard drive. Just copy <cdrom>:\i386 to c:\i386, then run c:\i386\winnt32.exe Dont convert to ntfs during the upgrade, you can always convert later using the convert utility. If you have any problems in setup, look at the files setupact.log, setuperr.log, setupapi.txt, there in the windows directory. Make sure you have at least 2 gigs free. And when you install, make sure you upgrade, not clean install. Dont type in the windows directory, let setup do this. Any questions just reply back, gosh |
