upgrade?

cozza

I have managed to get my other desk top pc working . now i need to wipe it clean as wont to have it just as myn and no one elses , i lots the original recovery disk can i put the windows vista on me old pc as it is windows xp home or do i need to get new windows recovery disc Im wiping old one clean as stuff not needed and dont need backing up so i just wont to start as though its new again ty

TakeThis

Let's try English this time.

Make and model of PC?

cozza

all i have is Qtech celeron (r) CPU 266ghz
267 GHz 224MB of ram thats all i can find on it even looked in system info
on the HDD it says EXCELSLOR callisto 60gb

TakeThis

cozza wrote: »

all i have is Qtech celeron (r) CPU 266ghz
267 GHz 224MB of ram thats all i can find on it even looked in system info
on the HDD it says EXCELSLOR callisto 60gb

No way that you could run Vista on 256MB of RAM using a nine year old PC.
Stick with XP and buy more RAM. Is there a Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity sticker anywhere on the case?

You have a PM.

cozza

yes there is i will pm you Takethis

robmar0se

TakeThis wrote: »

No way that you could run Vista on 256MB of RAM using a nine year old PC.
Stick with XP and buy more RAM.

Good advice - 100% correct.

cozza

i only brought this pc 6 yrs ago new

gonzo127

as above vista will not run on that as it currently stands so you will be looking at XP or one of the low requirement linux distrobutions such as Linux Mint LXDE or Lubuntu, but this all depends on what you actually want to do with the system,

as other have put more ram would help a lot http://www.crucial.com/eu/systemscanner/ this will help tell you what type of ram your system can take and thne its a case of looking around for some cheap

TakeThis

They already have a licence for XP, so it may be just a matter of retrieving the key, backing up Drivers and then re-installing using an OEM disc. More RAM and perhaps Avast 6 complete the picture.