by beginingmechanic on February 9th, 2007

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I am about to buy and ipod and itunes isnt availible for 98SE my uncle owns a computer building company if he could give me a copy of XP if i upgraded to it would it wipe my hard drive of what info it has on it?i have a copy of Windows ME is it any good?

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by Karl Plesz on February 11th, 2007
I'm going out on a limb here, but you could just not buy an iPod. What I'm suggesting is to consider an mp3 player that doesn't shackle you to an mp3 management program like iTunes.

For example, if you bought a Creative Labs mp3 player, it does not need iTunes. My family have owned 3 mp3 players over the last 5 years and none of them were iPods nor did they use iTunes. Nary a tear was shed.
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- I hear ya Karl. The ties that bind with an IPod actually made my decision for me when I went shopping for an MP3 player. I wouldn't touch one of those apple things if you paid me and I can imagine their new phone will be the same.
  My generic brand, 100 dollar made in the outskirts of some farm building MP3 player has outlasted my Niece's Ipod by two years, takes seconds to just drag and drop music on and has never required any software update. It also hooks up and runs fine using USB 1.1 on a P2 350 running win 98se. You can't say that for an Ipod
  
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- Not to mention iTunes' DRM.
  
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by canadianhelper on February 9th, 2007
Is your computer even ABLE to run XP?

IF yes...you can go from 98SE to XP as an upgrade and all your data will stay.
Review this: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_9xupgrade.asp

Me is buggy as all get out...if you CAN go to XP do it.

If your computer isn't upgradeable to XP and you want to keep using it you could try a product like
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/ctable.php
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- he has a pont it may not be able to run xp
  
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by Teetotal Michael on June 15th, 2008
If you upgrade from 98 to XP you wont lose all your files, just make sure your computer can run XP.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES **UPGRADE** TO WINDOWS Me...
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by PIEBOY on June 14th, 2008
it would not wipe out your hard drive if you upgrade it
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by Live and let live on June 14th, 2008
Upgrading from Win98 to WinXP doesn't wipe any of your data, but if it crashes or just goes wrong after the first step you lose everything on your system because you end up with no OS and are forced to reinstall an OS from scratch - usually.
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by Coby Yates on June 14th, 2008
I wouldn't get ME
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by LauGhOutLouDx3 on February 9th, 2007
no u need XP for itunes
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