![]() Unfortunately, I encountered difficulties booting DOSBox-X from the ISO image. Since the upgrade didn’t work as planned, I decided to proceed with a clean installation instead. Getting another ISO image or starting with a fresh installation would have been way too easy, right?! Back to square one. To further investigate, I even went ahead and reinstalled Windows 98 from scratch to rule out any possible installation issues, but to my dismay, I encountered the same error message again. The ISO image itself is absolutely fine since I have used it multiple times before. So, I compared the ISO image with the checksums I had - and to my surprise, I got a perfect match. To avoid any potential issues caused by bad images, I always create checksum files immediately after obtaining the image. I obtained this ISO file many years ago, so some silent file corruption was not entirely impossible. Windows XP Setup failing to copy files during the upgrade In fact, it even started copying the installation files but failed at the very first file. Windows XP Setup: Select between upgrade and clean installīecause of the issues I had with the clean installation of Windows 2000, I used the “Upgrade” installation type instead because that’s what worked for Windows 2000 as well.Īfter typing in the product key, the Setup was about to start the file copy process. I created a copy of the hard drive image after each step, so I was able to start the upgrade procedure with a clean installation of Windows 98 (Second Edition).Īfter mounting the Windows XP ISO image, I was greeted by the Windows XP Setup. Upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP is officially supported, so I was pretty confident this would work for me as well. Since I wasn’t able to do a clean install of Windows 2000 due to driver and compatibility issues as described in my previous article, I started with the upgrade route right away. Don’t blame the developers for any issues - this is very experimental. ![]() ![]() At the time of writing this article, running Windows XP isn’t officially supported by the DOSBox-X project. ![]()
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