If you don't "have to", then don't. If you're considering it for a learning experience, then by all means go ahead but all the wise words about backing up apply beforehand. Even if it is a throbbing roid once in a while, aren't all versions of Windows?
As far as your Viper goes, it's a TNT chipset, and therefore should be supported just fine AFAIK. If for some reason XP won't take it with built-in drivers, see if you can track down Win2K drivers instead. however, as NOLA said, drivers are somewhat limited, so try to have the most recent version of drivers available as backups is all I can say. Oh, and keep an eye on application compatibility too. XP has emulation modes for previous versions of Windows (including 9x) but I've had mixed success personally with that feature.
For your other FAT32 partitions, an XP install will let you choose which partition to install it on, and whether to convert said partition to NTFS or leave it FAT32 (if preformatted as FAT32). Your other partitions should be fine. For dual boot systems I only have experience with Windows stuff (barely touched any *nixes yet, but learning slowly) and installing XP last has worked for me quite well.
That being said, if you go XP go Pro if you can. Home has a neutered networking ability.
Hope this is of some use :) |
