I am currently running win 98 with no problems, but I just purchased a firewire pci card that I thought was compapible with Win 98 now it arrives and on the box it says win 98se and up. so i was thinking maybe upgrade to xp but after reading a lot of the posts on this board it appears there are a lot of problems with installing xp.
would i have to format my old drive before installing and loose all of the software, settings etc. a lot of the software was freeware and i don't even know where i got it after all these years also my outlook express contacts etc would not like to lose them.
i really don't know anything about xp. i feel comfortable with win 98 and have no problems with it but need the firewire for a new sony mindv camcorder.
also the machine is 1.3 meghertz ami cpu with 512m ram on board
any advise would be appreciated.
would i have to format my old drive before installing and loose all of the software, settings etc. a lot of the software was freeware and i don't even know where i got it after all these years also my outlook express contacts etc would not like to lose them.
i really don't know anything about xp. i feel comfortable with win 98 and have no problems with it but need the firewire for a new sony mindv camcorder.
also the machine is 1.3 meghertz ami cpu with 512m ram on board
any advise would be appreciated.