can't upgrade from 98 to XP Home edition

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jpaulus

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Hi,

I was able to install Windows 98 and I'm trying to upgrade to the home edition but the installation errors out because it believes that I don't have enough memory. It claims to need 1.9 GB and while I have 8 GB allocated it is somehow not finding it. Has anyone seen this? What can be done?

thanks,
jack
 
I had no problem at all - other than the fact that it took forever...just like on a real PC. While the error message appears to refer to drive space, perhaps you don't have enough RAM allocated to the VM.
 
yeah.. because of how i bought windows in the past i had to install 98SE and then XP and the only problem i had was installing 98SE took ages.. installed the tools and then installed XP very swiftly. also have 8Gb allocated.
 
Looks like you have a lot of stuff installed on the Win98 VM. I would've just created a WinXP VM from scratch because upgrading Windows isn't exactly something I would recommend at all. Especially when it's jumping to a different kernel. Another reason I'm guessing as such is because you said the HDD had 8GB allocated yet you receive an error where you needed 1.9GB of free space to continue upgrading. Perhaps your VM really does have less than 1.9GB of free space left with all the applications you installed?
 
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