Install XP on another drive????

[Willie]

>-----Original Message-----
>My old machine has had it and am about
>to build another. My current machine is running
>Win98se which has been constantly upgraded since
>Win 3.
>In the past when I upgraded my machines with "new" hard
drives
> and Win at the same time I was able to install
the "upgrade"
>on the new machine by using the start-up disk from the
previous
>version without having to install all of the previous
version on the new
>hard drive then "up-grading that.
>Is this still the case?
>Or, can someone point me to some info how to "up-grade"
>a new hard drive?
>Thanks
>Xeno
>
>
>.
>That's what an upgrade is, to upgrade from another OS.
If you don't have an OS then you can not upgrade. You
would need the full version of XP to do a clean install.

[Harry Ohrn]

"Willie" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >My old machine has had it and am about
> >to build another. My current machine is running
> >Win98se which has been constantly upgraded since
> >Win 3.
> >In the past when I upgraded my machines with "new" hard
> drives
> > and Win at the same time I was able to install
> the "upgrade"
> >on the new machine by using the start-up disk from the
> previous
> >version without having to install all of the previous
> version on the new
> >hard drive then "up-grading that.
> >Is this still the case?
> >Or, can someone point me to some info how to "up-grade"
> >a new hard drive?
> >Thanks
> >Xeno
> >
> >
> >.
> >That's what an upgrade is, to upgrade from another OS.
> If you don't have an OS then you can not upgrade. You
> would need the full version of XP to do a clean install.

Not correct. You can easily do a clean install using an Upgrade version. You
simply need a qualifying product to offer up when prompted. This is true for
previous versions of Windows OS's as well.

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Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
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