I enjoy a toshiba satellite laptop i.e. pre loaded next to winME. How do I achieve it to clutch Win XP?
Answer:
You can BUY a Windows XP disk. Visit a retail store like STAPLES and buy it. That is the channel to go, since you will own the DISK, in skin you need to reinstall it someday. But acquire more RAM also. You should have 512MB if you want Windows XP to run economically enough. (the Home newspaper is fine).
Windows 2000 would be fine too. In this case, you might produce due with only 256MB of RAM. Look for Windows 2000 Professional.
Look up your Toshiba laptop with the model number at http://www.coastmemory.com
Good luck and Happy Computing!
You said that you formatted the rock-hard drive and it "won't take" anything other than ME, so I'm assuming you own a retail copy of Windows XP - upgrade version, that you purchased within a store.
When you try a new install on a formatted tough drive with WindowsXP, it will get the point where it say there are no valid Windows installations (to upgrade from). At that point, you can insert your WindowsME disk and allow it to scan that and after the install will continue.
If the maufacturer have a "special" recovery disk (Like a Ghost image), and not a traditional WindowsME disk, after you will need to restore WinME on the system and afterwards run the Windows XP upgrade from WindowsME.
If it "won't take" it for some other reason, post exactly what the problem or message is. You can also look on the minimum system requirements for WindowsXP and your laptop information to see if you come across them.
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