Panasonic CF-25: install Win XP?

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I have an old Pana CF-25 laptop. It has win 98 on it. Has 80 mb of ram
only, 4 gb HDD. Pentium MMX 200 CPU. Was just wondering if I could
upgrade it to XP? I am thinking not, but just wanted to confirm.
Most of the software that is available on the internet for WIndows
isn't compatible with WIn 98, any longer, is it?

thanks.
 
geronimo said:
I have an old Pana CF-25 laptop. It has win 98 on it. Has 80 mb of
ram only, 4 gb HDD. Pentium MMX 200 CPU. Was just wondering if I
could upgrade it to XP? I am thinking not, but just wanted to
confirm.
Most of the software that is available on the internet for
WIndows
isn't compatible with WIn 98, any longer, is it?
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Compared to Windows XP, Windows 98 is difficult to work with. Then
again, you won't be doing high level personal computing on a Pentium
200 with a 4 GB hard drive. Having at least 512 MB of RAM helps. If
you've got less than 256 MB of RAM, Windows XP will struggle (or
maybe not run at all).

Make a copy of important files from the hard drive to removable
media.

With very little additional software, 4 GB might be enough. As long
as you've got important files copied to removable media, it won't
hurt to try. Do a clean install. In other words, format the hard
drive and then install Windows XP. First you should probably
slipstream service pack 2 into Windows XP if it's not already SP2.

Good luck.
 
geronimo said:
I have an old Pana CF-25 laptop. It has win 98 on it. Has 80 mb of ram
only, 4 gb HDD. Pentium MMX 200 CPU. Was just wondering if I could
upgrade it to XP? I am thinking not, but just wanted to confirm.
Most of the software that is available on the internet for WIndows
isn't compatible with WIn 98, any longer, is it?

thanks.
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Don't waste your time, it's not up to XP. Even Windows 200 would struggle on
that.
Although you could try putting linux on it I suppose.

SteveH
 
I have an old Pana CF-25 laptop. It has win 98 on it. Has 80 mb of ram
only, 4 gb HDD. Pentium MMX 200 CPU. Was just wondering if I could
upgrade it to XP? I am thinking not, but just wanted to confirm.
Most of the software that is available on the internet for WIndows
isn't compatible with WIn 98, any longer, is it?

thanks.
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That's a "Toughbook", right? I've seen them as very nice Linux machines

It's far too small to run any Windows later than 98.
 
SteveH said:
Don't waste your time, it's not up to XP. Even Windows 200 would struggle on
that.
Although you could try putting linux on it I suppose.

SteveH
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I agree...Win2k would work...but just barely.

The machine is perfectly usable with win98 though.

You can upgrade the browser to IE6 or else use Firefox
 
geronimo said:
I have an old Pana CF-25 laptop. It has win 98 on it. Has 80 mb of ram
only, 4 gb HDD. Pentium MMX 200 CPU. Was just wondering if I could
upgrade it to XP? I am thinking not, but just wanted to confirm.
Most of the software that is available on the internet for WIndows
isn't compatible with WIn 98, any longer, is it?

thanks.
Click to expand...
Windows has become a bigger program with each new version and a 4 gig
drive is not very practical for WinXP.
 
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