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How to uprgrade an xp system to 64-bit?
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robish Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester
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How to uprgrade an xp system to 64-bit?
Danny
From a security perspective you really should not have an XP box on the Internet at all, since 2008.
Please google MS08–067 (and countless others) which is a vulnerability allowing your box to be compromised remotely quite easily.
So I would advise you to upgrade by downloading Ubuntu x64 for free and install it over XP, replacing it entirely. That's assuming it will run on hardware that old.
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How to uprgrade an xp system to 64-bit?
You don't upgrade a 32-bit OS to 64-bit. You do a new install.
And you should be looking at Windows 10 (if you're sticking with Microsoft as your OS of choice.)
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Will my documents be saved when I download Ubantu?
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robish Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester
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No, it would completely overwrite the drive, you would have to move these files to external usb drive 1st.
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What if I used a USB boot drive?
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What if I used a USB boot drive?
Yes it probably would work, but you would have to set it up with persistance so that you would not have to install graphics drivers each time you use it. If its cpu only then persistence is not necessary.
Edit: scratch that, no it is necessary for the boinc software. Unless you dont mind installing each time you use it. That would be painful though.
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What do you mean 'with persistance'?
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What do you mean 'with persistance'?
It means you can keep any changes you make to the usb boot drive, config changes, installed software etc and that it would survive a reboot and not disappear.
I use Universal Usb Installer from https://www.pendrivelinux.com/ but there are lots of alternatives. https://rufus.ie/ for example.
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I'm using RUFUS for now.
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