Supported Operating-System Combinations; System Requirements - IBM 31P8128 User Manual

Ibm data migration kit user's guide

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You can perform the data-migration process between two computers with

Windows operating systems. The computers can have different operating

systems; however, not all Windows operating-system combinations are

supported. See "Supported operating-system combinations".

Supported operating-system combinations

You can migrate to these operating systems on your new computer.

If the previous computer operating system is:

Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP

Professional

Windows 2000 Professional

Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

Windows 98

Windows 95

The computers that you are transferring data between do not have to be the

same type. For example, you can transfer data from a desktop computer to a

mobile computer and vice versa. The following are requirements for the new

and previous computer.

New computer:

v Pentium-class microprocessor or later

v Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000,

Windows Me, Windows 98 SE, Windows 98, Windows 95

v For migration to Windows XP only, a diskette drive in or that can be

connected to the new computer or a Windows XP CD and a CD-ROM or

DVD-ROM drive in the old computer

v 32 MB memory

v Free space on the hard disk equal to the amount of data to be transferred

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The following operating systems are

supported for the new computer: