When going to do an install of XP it gives 2 options and one is Upgrade and the other is Advanced. Now I want to know what the difference is other than Advanced meaning doing a clean install and of course having to change the bios to having the cd-rom start first and not the floppy.

If I am mistaken please feel free to tell me and also if I sound right just say ok or something as this has me wondering.

Advanced usually means a full install, if you are installing a second copy of xp, or planning to dual boot this is the option you want. If you are running setup from a windows enviroment and choose advanced you should have the option of copying all the setup files to an alternative drive so they are not lost if you format the main boot partition. Upgrade is just that, it upgrades the present OS to windows XP

hmm let me ask this question then. if I wanted to do a dual boot, which I never have tried before:D. I would use the advanced and just let it install meaning it would ask me if I wanted to partition it or do I partition it first?

It's entirely up to you. You do get the option of deleting\creating partitions during setup BUT it will not let you resize an existing partition on a drive where all the space has been allocated. 3rd party programs like Partition Magic 8 are best for resizing and creating new partitions. Just a little warning though, if you do use an application like PM8 don't let it format the new partition- windows is extremely picky about what it installs to- create the new partition then let windows setup format it

Thnx or woof woof.:D

Whatever, but (as stated in another post) never let the seup convert a partition from FAT to NTFS. If you have a FAT-partition and want XP on it using NTFS make sure you format it first.
PQM7 made no success together with XP, but PQM8 should do it.

Just a little sidenote.

Have you decided whic OS's you plan to dual boot from?
Who knows - maybe there is something else to consider - e.g. order etc.

I would like to keep the 98se for the heck of it and if XP goes well I could always then use the 98se for a testing area and try Longhorn etc on it.BD

Then leave 98 where it is (C:\) - choose the Advanced option and install XP to some empty partition of your choice. My personal choice would be to use FAT32 so that when in 98, I could easily see what is on all the drives/partitions.

Just a small correction. When you start a clean install by Advanced, you no need to have always CDROM first in BIOS Boot Sequence, because it is copying the boot files from the CD to hard disk before restarting; and what happens is it is the Windows Setup is loaded from the harddisk. :)