OK, has anyone with experience with the Athlon 64 ever upgraded from an Athlon XP and done an Win XP repair install.

If so. Did it work? Is this even possible changing to an A64 from an XP?

Thanks pimps!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lunamods OK, has anyone with experience with the Athlon 64 ever upgraded from an Athlon XP and done an Win XP repair install. If so. Did it work? Is this even possible changing to an A64 from an XP? Thanks pimps!!!

I've done that upgrade a couple of times. The first time there was no problem, but the second time required the repair install.

I think I've done repair installs about 3 or 4 times over the last couple of years - mostly without any major problems - the worst was when I last upgraded my HD and the data transfer died half way through - that really messed things up.

Otherwise, it's just been major hardware changes - usually when going from one platform to another that required the repair install. eg Via to Nforce and then Athlon xp - A64.

No major issues except for having to re-patch everything - that can be a real pain. Basically, boot from your XP cd, go to Install, then tell it to do a repair install and it will keep all your data and files and usually most programs (something small always seems to dissappear on me )

I haven't tried this since SP2 though so I'm not sure how that might affect things.

Good luck

Quote: Originally Posted by Avman I've done that upgrade a couple of times. The first time there was no problem, but the second time required the repair install. I think I've done repair installs about 3 or 4 times over the last couple of years - mostly without any major problems - the worst was when I last upgraded my HD and the data transfer died half way through - that really messed things up. Otherwise, it's just been major hardware changes - usually when going from one platform to another that required the repair install. eg Via to Nforce and then Athlon xp - A64. No major issues except for having to re-patch everything - that can be a real pain. Basically, boot from your XP cd, go to Install, then tell it to do a repair install and it will keep all your data and files and usually most programs (something small always seems to dissappear on me ) I haven't tried this since SP2 though so I'm not sure how that might affect things. Good luck

Yea, I know the skippy on it and have done it many many times. I just did knot know weather or not it worked on an XP to A64 change.

Can anyone else confirm that this does indeed work?