IBM 31P8128 manual Supported operating-system combinations, System requirements, New computer

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:	The following operating systems are
	supported for the new computer:
Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP	Windows XP Home Edition, Windows
Professional	XP Professional
Windows 2000 Professional	Windows XP Home Edition, Windows
	XP Professional, Windows 2000
Windows Millennium Edition (Me)	Windows XP Home Edition, Windows
	XP Professional, Windows Me
Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)	Windows XP Home Edition, Windows
	XP Professional, Windows 2000,
	Windows Me, Windows 98 SE,
	Windows 98
Windows 98	Windows XP Home Edition, Windows
	XP Professional, Windows 2000,
	Windows Me, Windows 98 SE,
	Windows 98
Windows 95	Windows XP Home Edition, Windows
	XP Professional, Windows 2000,
	Windows Me, Windows 98 SE,
	Windows 98, Windows 95

System requirements

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:

vPentium-class microprocessor or later

vWindows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98 SE, Windows 98, Windows 95

vFor 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

v32 MB memory

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

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