**IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY WINDOWS 2000 OR OTHER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS NT DOES NOT APPEAR IN THIS VIDEO, PLEASE READ THIS!** I have received a handful of comments asking about what happened to versions of Windows like Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 and why they were not included in the video, so I wanted to answer that all here. Before Windows XP, Microsoft released versions of Windows that targeted two specific areas. There were releases for regular consumers/home users, and there were releases for businesses/organizations. The home versions (Windows 95, 98, ME, etc.) are all DOS-based and are what this video focused on. The business versions (Windows NT 3.x, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, etc.) are NT-based. The general rule is that you can not upgrade from a DOS-based version of Windows to an NT-based version, and you can not upgrade from an NT-based version of Windows to a DOS-based one, because of incompatibilities. Windows 2000, to my knowledge, is the first NT release to allow for an upgrade from a DOS-based Windows version to an NT one, but it was still technically a "business-targeted" release while Windows ME was targeted at home users and was released in the same year as Windows 2000. Windows XP was also an NT release but, unlike Windows 2000, it was released in both a "home" edition for home users and a "professional" edition for businesses. There is another version of this project someone could (theoretically) do in a virtual machine called the "NT Upgrade Path" which covers all the NT-based of Windows, from Windows NT 3.x to Windows NT 4.0, to Windows 2000, then to XP Professional edition, etc. I did want to try and do that project as well but there seem to be weird bugs that occur whenever someone tries to do the NT Upgrade Path. I've seen other people have the same issues with it and I have no idea what the problem is. If I ever do figure it out, I will most certainly do an NT Upgrade Path that includes all the NT releases. So long story short, I excluded Windows 2000 because it's a part of the NT releases of Windows meant for businesses and it's also a part of the NT Upgrade Path (It just happens to also support DOS-based upgrades from 95/98/ME) and I excluded earlier versions of Windows NT (3.x/4.0) due to the NT Upgrade path too, as well as technical limitations imposed by Windows/Microsoft which made it impossible to upgrade anyways. Hopefully this clarifies most questions regarding Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and other NT-based versions of Windows in this video :)
I do tend to get quite carried away when writing comments (or just writing in general) that has to do with explaining stuff lol. There are just a lot of little specific details that made me decide to (or forced me to) leave pre-Windows XP versions of Windows NT out of this video. I wanted to address all of those little details/issues in one large comment since a lot of people asked about it. All those little details made it hard to summarize the issues so I went with the full explanation lol.
It's crazy how small the Window in time was where the hardware was so highly forward (for now) and backwards compatible with almost the entire range of the IBM PC compatible ecosystem. That time was around 2005-2007. Systems had 64 bit multicore CPUs, PCIe, SATA and supported just enough RAM to be usable today while also supporting things like IDE, legacy non UEFI BIOS, SATA legacy mode and sometimes, even mobo chipsets and network adapters with DOS or Win9X drivers.
This really took me back to the good old times when me and my older brother got our first Windows 95 PC from our parents. I was 6 at this time & i think this was the time my interest for PC's starts growing massively. Now, nearly 30 years later, i'm a manager from an IT department of a large Software company.
Timestamps when installs/upgrades begin: DOS 7.1 - 0:01 Windows 1.01 - 0:18 Windows 2.03 - 0:38 Windows 3.0 - 1:29 Windows 3.1 - 1:55 Windows 95 - 2:39 Windows 98 - 4:19 Windows ME - 8:48 Windows XP - 13:12 Windows Vista - 22:16 Windows 7 - 33:20 Windows 8 beta (build 7963) - 45:13 Windows 8 - 56:24 Windows 8.1 - 1:06:42 Windows 10 - 1:20:07 Windows 11 - 1:38:32 These timestamps are also available in the video's description.
I didn't include 2000 because it was a version of Windows meant more for businesses (while ME was the home user counterpart, released in the same year) and I wanted to focus solely on the home user versions since the businesses versions have their own, separate upgrade path (NT 3.x, NT 4.0, 2000, etc). Windows Longhorn isn't a released Windows version, they were a series of beta builds of Windows that were created when they started development on the next version of Windows that would come after Windows XP (Longhorn eventually became Windows Vista). I wanted the video to focus only on versions of Windows that were released (basically excluding any beta builds which weren't meant for public release).
That was a long trip. I can't imagine how much time you've spent on gathering knowledge and making first attempts before recording this (like facing some errors with compatibility, etc). Bravo!
Thank you! There was certainly a lot of trial and error involved which is why I was ever grateful for being able to find solutions to several compatibility issues online!
I can certainly try! Is there an error message that appears when you try to upgrade? If so, what does it say? If no message appears, what happens when you try to upgrade?
Oh, luckily that should be a pretty easy issue to solve! You just need a different edition of Windows Vista. Windows XP and Vista (like other versions of Windows) came in "editions" that offered different features. Windows XP had a "Home" edition and a "Professional" edition while Vista had a handful of editions ("Business", "Home Premium", and "Ultimate", to name a few). The edition of Windows you install determines what edition of Windows you can upgrade to. According to the message, you upgraded to Windows XP Professional. The "Professional" edition of XP can only be upgraded with the "Business" or "Ultimate" version of Vista if I recall correctly. It does not support upgrading to Windows Vista Home Premium. I used a copy of Windows XP's "Home" edition in my video, hence why I was able to upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium. To fix this issue, you would need either the "Ultimate" or "Business" edition of Windows Vista. I would recommend trying to upgrade Windows XP to the "Business" edition of Vista, then you can go from Vista to 11 using the Professional/Pro versions of the remaining Windows versions. Hopefully, this helps!
Very well done! I have seem similar videos but this is the best presentation so far. I am curious as to why you have not included Windows NT4 or Windows 2000, both of which were very common in corporate settings, and both of which use a version of the NTFS file system. Again, great job here !
Thank you! I didn't include Windows 2000 for that reason, actually. They're both business-oriented versions of Windows, and while it's possible to upgrade to Windows 2000 from a non-business version of Windows like Windows 98, Windows 2000 actually follows a different upgrade path that only includes the rest of the business-oriented versions of Windows (NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 3.51, NT4, 2000, etc). The upgrade path in this video only goes through the home user versions (95, 98, ME, XP Home Edition, etc). I excluded NT4 for the same reason, though an additional reason why I excluded NT4, in particular, is that you can only upgrade to NT4 from earlier versions of NT; an upgrade from Windows 95 to NT4 is not supported. If I wanted to include NT4 and 2000, I would make a separate video showing every Windows NT version being upgraded which only includes the aforementioned business-oriented versions. As I mentioned in some other comments on this video, while I wish to make that video in the future, I've run into numerous issues that prevent the upgrade process around Windows XP. I haven't been able to find a fix anywhere, making the NT upgrade path far more challenging.
Core 2 Duo-era PCs seem to have some of the best driver support in terms of the most versions of Windows, if you go beyond the 2nd gen Intel CPUs you begin to lose support for XP/Vista and you go below the Core 2 Duo newer versions of Windows start to become much slower
That's why I was really glad to have this laptop! It fit my needs for this project perfectly exactly as you described it. On top of all that, Dell laptops back then had really nice options in the BIOS that allowed you to disable almost every feature where plenty of other computers didn't (which proved useful when I ran into issues with certain BIOS settings enabled on older Windows versions). I obviously had to apply a couple of patches to make all the versions of Windows in this video cooperate with the laptop but other than that, it worked out great for my needs! It's impressive how far you can go with a Core 2 Duo.
If I recall correctly (and I could be wrong, I'm just going off memory as well as what I found through some sources with a quick Google search to verify my assumption), I believe you could technically get away with most Ivy Bridge (3rd gen Intel CPUs) processors with full Windows XP and Vista support too since it's just a die shrink of Sandy Bridge (2nd gen Intel CPUs).
Great watch iv setup these through the years and its great to go back in time and watch it all happen at once trip down memory lane guessing windows 10 11 are current so will need to keep living with those installs for a bit longer :)
@@ComputingCanuck You're very welcome Matt! I am surprisingly impressed that it is indeed possible to start upgrading every (not beta, official release) version of Windows on an Intel-based compatible laptop.
The crazy part is I didn't even find the laptop. It was given to me and just happened to fit the requirements for all the versions of Windows. I got very lucky lol.
*Timestamps:* DOS 7.1, Windows 1.01, Windows 2.03 (0:43) Windows 3.0 (1:40) Windows 3.1 (2:09) Windows 95 (4:01) Windows 98 (6:43) Windows ME (12:36) Windows XP Home Edition (20:58) Windows Vista Home Premium (32:32) Windows 7 Home Premium (44:45) Windows 8 Beta (Build 7963) (55:43) Windows 8 Pro (1:06:13) Windows 8.1 Pro (1:19:47) Windows 10 Pro (1:37:29) Windows 11 Pro (2:12:05)
Now you just need to try it with a stripped down version of win 10/11 to see how much better it performs without all the nonsense running in the background. I use ReviOS in my PC and will never switch back to regular windows. It still maintains all the functionality I need.
A very interesting and fascinating project. Several versions of early Windows are significantly older than I am, which is a curious thought indeed for me! I noticed that you used a fairly low-specced P.C. for the upgrades, and I was curious if the full upgrade path can still be followed on an extremely high-end device; e.g. one with an Intel Core i9 processor, 1TB+ SSD, and 32 GB+ RAM. It has occurred to me that such a system might actually cause the very old versions of Windows (perhaps anything before Windows XP) to crash basically out of confusion, as no computer in their day had anywhere near that much RAM or hard drive space, nor would they have had SSDs. Also, do the very old versions of Windows actually run any faster on modern hardware than they would have running on the best hardware of the era they were made in? I would assume so, but since I have never personally tried to install very old versions of Windows on modern hardware, I might be mistaken.
That's cool! I'm in the same boat as many of the Windows versions are older than me as well! I chose a low-specced PC that had a x64 CPU (since that's one Windows 11 requirement you can't really bypass unlike the TPM requirement) because there are many modern devices that just won't work or won't be detected without patches (like SATA/NVMe devices). I chose the Dell laptop in particular not only because it fit the requirements of being an older, lower-specced computer (which made it easier to do the upgrade on) while having "support" for Windows 11 with its x64 CPU, but it also had a comprehensive BIOS that allowed me to disable nearly every extra feature in the system. That proved to be really useful during my test runs when I experienced weird issues installing Windows until I disabled BIOS devices (like the USB ports, the PC card port, etc) or CPU options (like Intel SpeedStep, multi-core usage, etc). I've seen scenarios where people have managed to get older versions of Windows working on an extremely high-end device (I've seen Windows 98 used a lot in particular for this scenario) but I would imagine it would require even more patches than what I already put in my video lol. So it's definitely plausible. As for the full upgrade path, it may *theoretically* be possible with lots of patches depending on the system used, but there's no guarantee (especially since I experienced issues on that Dell laptop until I disabled stuff, so I could only imagine how many more issues one would run into on a more modern, higher-end system). I thought about doing a follow-up to this video sometime in the distant future using a higher-end system and see how far I get but I don't have a spare high-end system at the moment to test with. Hopefully one day that will change lol. The older versions of Windows run pretty much as fast as they can given how much resources they have open to them (the big limitation is what the OS can support, regardless of how much resources they can use). Early versions of Windows (1.0, 2.0, etc) were mainly used on super slow hard drives or were run straight off a floppy disk so opening programs took way longer back then than they did now. The later DOS based versions of Windows (95, 98, ME) also ran a bit faster, but at the same time there was also performance hits since there were no drivers available for those Windows versions for my laptop. So, for example, opening programs took a bit longer because there was no graphics driver installed, causing programs to take a bit longer to be displayed on screen. The laptop I used was built for the XP/Vista era so by the time I upgraded to Windows XP, performance was back to what you would expect for that time period. Thanks for the questions and hopefully my response answers them!
Good video! Note on what you said in the description about beta builds resulting in loss of data - I have a brief story that proves it. Basically, I once installed build 8002 of Windows 8 on my computer, dualbooting it with Windows 10 Home. Somehow, that made it impossible to boot into Windows 10. I had Windows 10 on a ~170GB partition and Windows 7 and the Win8 build on 40GB partitions. This didn't result in any noticeable data loss (except some boot file for Windows 10). (I didn't test Windows 7, though.) Thus, I spent hours trying to fix this, and ended up reinstalling Windows 8.1 on the computer, wiping everything (but backing everything up, obviously). If you really want to use a beta build on your computer, use a program to back up your hard drive and all its partitions, wipe the hard drive, and install the beta build. Don't use it as your daily OS.
Thank you! Also that is a great story that proves not only why a beta should never be installed as a main OS, but it also proves how useful backups are! Without them, we'd be screwed lol. Good thing you were able to back up and restore all your data!
The newer the OS is, the longer it takes to install. Things must have been improved in so many aspects. But sometimes I wonder, if the size increased was worth the improvements and innovations it contains?
I remember way back that I cleaned up 10 mb on my 40 mb harddisk to try out windows! Those were the days :) Oh, and I quickly uninstalled it again after the try.
Yup! That's why I intentionally sped it up 4 times, so that people can (mostly) watch it in its normal speed at X0.25. I've also gotten requests to release a full version that isn't sped up at all so I may do that in the future :)
Pure art, warns unsuspecting people who don't know what a setup is and confuses it with those gamer setups and it helps what to do to update the pc, I wish Android had this instead of sleeping and having Android updated oh and another thing I wanted on Android to always update the Android version
I have a problem. While upgrading Windows 3.1 to 95, appears " Error SU-0013 Setup could not create files on your startup drive and cannot set up Windows. If you have HPFS or Windows NT file system, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compression, disable it before running Setup. See SETUP.TXT on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CD-ROM." Can you help me?
Hm, I never encountered that error before on any of my Windows 95 installations so I can't say for certain what the issue could be, however, I looked online for possible causes and found some information. If you prepared the drive using FDISK and said "Y/Yes" to enabling large disk support in FDISK, your startup drive will be a "FAT32" drive. Earlier releases of Windows 95 only support FAT/FAT16, not FAT32. I don't know what version of Windows 95 you used but there's a good chance you used the earlier version that doesn't support FAT32. You can use a bootable tool like Parted Magic or GParted to figure out what your startup drive is. If it's FAT32, you'll have to obtain an updated copy of Windows 95 that supports FAT32 and try installing that to see if it works (Search "Windows 95 OSR2" for an updated copy). If that fails, you'll have to reformat your drive and start over. If you must start over (and if you used FDISK originally to prepare the drive), use FDISK again but say NO when it asks to enable "large disk support". Doing so will create a 2GB FAT/FAT16 partition on your startup drive that should work with all versions of Windows 95.
Uhm ... I also doesnt know this Error, But have you try a different win95 Version? Win95a is a littlebit Buggy. Last Version Win95c have much less Errors.
I really like these kind of vids. You didn't change the system requirements for the win 11 installation a pc/laptop that old can't really have those specs. What did you do for that. I'd like to do that without bypassing checks on my old laptop. Thanks :)
Glad to hear you liked it! In order to install Windows 11, I did actually have to bypass the system requirements checks that the Windows 11 installer performs before it installs. I mentioned how to do it in the video description. I didn't show myself doing it in the video (I did it off-camera) but in order to bypass the system requirements check, all you have to do is delete a file on the Windows 11 install media. This was the only way to install Windows 11 on the laptop due it's old specs.
Great video of upgrading of all Windows! What are you thoughts of Linux OS? I'm watching this video on Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, which is a official flavor of Ubuntu. I switched from Windows 11 to Linux in December 2022 because Windows 11 broke so many updates and get BSOD every few days or so without a fix. No complaints on my Kubuntu so far and it is fast. I started using Windows XP when I was a kid.
Thanks! I haven't had nearly as much experience with Linux as I have with Windows so while I can't give an in-depth opinion about it, I will say that I did enjoy the small bit of time I used it (I played around with Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and I had to use OpenSUSE for a school project). There was definitely a bit of a learning curve with me being so used to Windows (I started with Windows 98), but it was nice. I always wanted to try out Linux some more so I'm thinking of putting Linux on an old laptop when I get the chance.
Wonderful Video. I have now seen it all. My question after watching this for a few minutes is WHY would you care to even try this nonsense. Just uninstall and install it fresh lol.
This video was intended to be more of an educational and/or entertainment video rather than actually doing the practical thing lol. If I were to do this practically I would definitely go the method of clean installing Windows. This was just to show that it is possible to upgrade through every consumer version of Windows and keep your files through every version, even if it would never be a practical thing to do lol.
My laptop has a 64-bit CPU. In most cases you can install a 32-bit version of Windows on a 64-bit CPU. However, Windows 11 was only released in a 64-bit version (unlike Windows 10 which has both a 32-bit and 64-bit version). Normally, you can't upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows to a 64-bit version (it would require you to erase all your data and install the 64-bit version fresh). That's why I had to install a Windows 8 beta build and perform a workaround which allowed me to upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows despite all the versions I installed before that being 32-bit.
Lol, yeah quite a lot of time and dedication was required! It probably took longer to experiment and figure out how to get every version of Windows to work properly than it did to make the actual video. Sorry to hear about your Windows XP Compaq 515 troubles, hopefully one day you'll succeed in getting it to work! If you're stuck on a particular part, I could possibly try and offer some assistance depending on the problem you're facing if you would like.
Question howcome you couldn't just put a windows 11 CD in to upgrade it being straight from windows 1.0 ?Does it have to go through each generation of windows upgrade 1 by 1 ? to compatibility upgrade so it can install smoothly ?
The main reason I went through each version was for fun, essentially, to show off each Windows version and to show you can make files in Windows 1.0 and keep them in Windows 11. That being said, going through nearly each generation IS required in order to preserve files and settings to do a proper upgrade. If you miss certain versions, Windows won't allow you to upgrade and will either 1) require you to wipe everything before installing or 2) make you lose all your files and settings after the upgrade. (Which is one of the main reasons why trying to do an upgrade from 1.0 straight to 11 is impossible)
Yes and no. Certain hardware is compatible with older versions of Windows thanks to backwards compatibility, but there were a few software/Windows patches and workarounds discovered by people on the Internet that I had to use in order for older versions of Windows to properly install and run on newer hardware, otherwise it would result in errors or crashes that would prevent the upgrade.
I skipped NT 4.0 due to technical incompatibilities and I chose to exclude NT 5.0 because I felt like it didn't belong in this series of upgrades. Let me explain: I left out NT 4.0 because there's no possible upgrade path from the DOS-based versions of Windows (95, 98, etc.) to NT 4.0 due to a limitation within NT 4.0. I would have had to do a new install over Windows 9x and wipe everything, which defeats the purpose of the video. By "NT 5.0", I assume you're referring to the full version of Windows 2000, not the Windows 2000 beta, also named NT 5.0. I left out NT 5.0/Windows 2000 mainly because it isn't a part of the consumer Windows releases and was meant for businesses, launching close to Windows ME, which was Windows 2000's consumer counterpart. I also left out Windows 2000/NT 5.0 because I would have had to install Windows ME before Windows 2000. That messes up the timeline of Windows releases, though, since Windows 2000 was released a few months **before** Windows ME in the same year. That's not a technical limitation, just a personal irk since I wanted to keep the timeline consistent lol. Plus, I didn't see a point in including NT 5.0/Windows 2000 in this video since all the previous NT versions were incompatible with these upgrades. That said, though, I want to make some NT-related content in the future. You'll likely see those Windows versions (mainly NT 4.0) appear in future videos if I ever find the time to do them :)
I tried doing it on a vm but it didn't let me to upgrade till windows 95, which Windows 95 iso did you use? I was using the 95 upgrade iso edition and did you use 98 and ME upgrade edition isos?
I went to the WinworldPC website and used a Windows 95 iso from there. Specifically, I clicked on Windows 95, then selected Windows 95 (RTM), then I chose the ISO labelled "Windows 95 (Retail Upgrade)" since that version of Windows 95 is specifically used for upgrades. Let me know how it goes!
@@arshkhanlm3086 This error usually occurs if you have too much RAM in your system or VM for the Windows 98 installer to detect it correctly. You're going to have edit a file called System.ini (Usually located inside the C:\Windows folder) and add a line that lets Windows 95/98 detect only enough RAM for it to work properly. I did that step in Windows 3.1 at 2:20 in the video, but you can still follow the exact same steps in Windows 95 and it should work. If you prefer instructions through text instead of the video, here you go. 1) Go to C:\Windows 2) Open the file System.ini in Notepad 3) Look for the section in the file labelled [386enh]. 4) Add this line under the line [386enh]: "MaxPhysPage=10000" without the quotation marks. 5) Save the file, restart your computer/VM, and try installing Windows 98 again. If you can't edit the file in Windows, you'll have to restart to DOS mode to edit the file. If that doesn't work, you may also have to tell Windows 98 to skip the hard drive check that it usually performs at the very start of setup. To do this, click the Start button, click Run, then type this into the Run box: "D:\Setup.exe /IS" without the quotation marks, and replacing D with the letter of your CD/ISO drive if it's different than D. Good luck!
I am trying this on a virtual machine and I followed all the steps but when I installed Windows 3.1 it kept saying: Error loading GDI.EXE There is a solution on Experts-Exchange but I can't view it (So much for expert answers to my tough questions...) Any help is appreciated!
Hello! I only ever encountered that error once during my test runs so I'm not too knowledgeable on the matter but between my own encounter with that error, and from what I learned while looking up information in preparation for this video, here's what I can suggest. (I'm assuming this error happened when trying to run Windows 3.1 by using the WIN command in DOS. If this error occurred DURING the upgrade to Windows 3.1 and caused the upgrade to fail/crash, please correct me): -Try to run these three commands inside of DOS without the quotation marks: "WIN", "WIN /S" and "WIN /3". The first command tries to run Windows normally, the second one runs Windows in "Standard Mode", and the third one runs Windows in "386 Enhanced Mode". Running WIN /S is what worked for me, at least. -In your virtual machine settings, try setting the operating system type to Windows 3.1 and try lowering the amount of RAM in your virtual machine to something really small like 4 MB. Let me know if this help fixes your issue or not, I'd be glad to help continue troubleshooting if it doesn't work.
hi it's what mother board you have i tryed this on a b450 amd4 it would not work the older ones yes it works ok chip set has alot to do with it i find out my mate works in a place computers get handed in all the time and he pulls the hd's out and the rest get skipped it's the older cases that go he all way coing around with pcb and cd dvd drives time to time some dvd- ram drives
Hello! I used a laptop for this video so the motherboard and chipset is a bit different than what you'd find on desktops. Here's what I used: -CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T5470 -Motherboard: (It's just a generic Dell motherboard used in their older laptops). It uses Socket M (also known as Socket mPGA478MT) for the CPU and it runs with the GM965 chipset
The cameraman (my tripod) is certainly a hard worker and never dies lol. Windows 1.0 gets upgraded by the next version of Windows, Windows 2.0. When I install Windows 2.0, I have to tell it which folder to install Windows to. If I specify the same folder in which Windows 1.0 is already installed in, it will simply replace all the Windows 1.0 system files in that folder with Windows 2.0 versions. Doing so completes an upgrade from Windows 1.0 to Windows 2.0.
Chances are if it can run Windows XP and 10 at the same time, you could also make it run 2000 and 98 as well. Though, if you wanted to run all four Windows versions at the same time, you would likely have to erase the laptop's drive and re-install them each on their own section (partition) of the drive (starting with 98, then 2000, then XP, then 10). If you try to install 98/2000 with XP and 10 already on the drive, it may not be able to properly detect the existing Windows versions and may damage the boot portion of the drive.
Honestly, I am. I'm also more relieved than anything else lol. It wasn't easy to do several test runs of this project behind the scenes before making this video, running into various issues and spending hours figuring out how to fix them lol.
I suppose you are correct that this could be possible, however, I think that with installing a os, yes you could install it and have nothing working(sound, video cards), but can you do this with making sure those items are fully understood and functional in all of the operating systems. this is an slightly interesting idea, but un-plausible because you cannot get sound and video working in all of those systems.
You are correct. It would be pretty much impossible to have all those items working fully in every version of Windows due to the fact that the software needed to make things like video and sound work (the "drivers") are rarely compatible for *every* version of Windows. It really depends how many versions of Windows are supported by the drivers of a particular piece of hardware like video or sound cards. In my specific case with the Dell Vostro 1400 used in the video, the drivers were made to be compatible for XP and Vista. That means if I wanted to get everything, like video and sound, working fully, I would have had to wait until Windows XP or Vista to install the drivers. Any version of Windows after XP would probably work fine too with all those items due to driver compatibility, but any older Windows versions before XP would be really hard to get working due to the fact that Dell never made drivers for this laptop before XP.
Настоящий апгрейд Windows NT должен был выглядеть так Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11. Никто не задумывался почему NT началось с 3? Потому что до этого была NT OS/2 и OS/2 2.0!!!
That is a good point. OS/2 is often overlooked by many. As for the NT-only upgrade you mentioned, I do want to do that sometime in the future once someone figures out a way to get around the bugs that occur during the NT upgrade.
I would be doing all these steps if we could have 16 bits support in Windows 11 64 bits natively but I guess every update does not inherit the components from the previous OS
Sure, I can try and help! Though I need a little bit more information to help out. Can you tell me whether you're installing Windows on a real PC or a virtual machine, as well as what the specs are for the computer (whether it's real or virtual)? Also, how far does the upgrade to Vista or 7 get before it shows the blue screen (does it get to "Expanding Files", or "Gathering Files", etc?) Also, what error message does the blue screen display? There will usually be a series of numbers after the word "STOP" which is located near the bottom of the blue screen that will tell you what the error is (you can also look near the top of the blue screen where it will display an error message in all capital letters, such as "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA") This will help me narrow down what the issue is. In the meantime, here are some generic fixes while I wait for your response: -If you want to go from Win XP to Win 7, you always have to go from Win XP to Win Vista first. -Check to make sure your Windows partition is NTFS (During the Win XP part of this video, I had to change my partition to NTFS so you can see how to do it) -If the Windows Vista installer says there are incompatible drivers in your system, remove them and restart your PC before continuing the upgrade -In Win XP, open a command window and run the command "sfc /scannow". This makes sure all important system files are present on the PC and will copy any missing ones from the Win XP CD. Once the command completes, retry the upgrade. I'd be happy to continue attempting to solve the issue once I get that information! Let me know how it goes!
Thanks! Also if I get enough requests to make a full version which isn't sped up then I might! The problem is uploading such a long video would take a very long time with how slow my Internet is so I'll probably only do it if there's more demand for one. :)
I might upload the full, 9 hour version which isn't sped up at all so you can enjoy it at normal speed. I may upload it eventually but there's no guarantee due to how busy I am and how slow my Internet is.
