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XP upgrade from oem or retail?
I need to buy a new harddrive for 2 reasons: 1) I was
sold a pirated OS, 2) my harddrive is old and about to crash. Can I use a legit oem version of Win98 (that came with my computer years ago) and install it on my new drive, then buy the XP upgrade and install it over my oem Win98? I heard that the XP upgrade only works for retail versions of windows, NOT oem versions. Please help! I am getting conflicting answers. Thanks!! |
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XP upgrade from oem or retail?
Spanky wrote:
I need to buy a new harddrive for 2 reasons: 1) I was sold a pirated OS, 2) my harddrive is old and about to crash. Can I use a legit oem version of Win98 (that came with my computer years ago) and install it on my new drive, then buy the XP upgrade and install it over my oem Win98? I heard that the XP upgrade only works for retail versions of windows, NOT oem versions. Please help! I am getting conflicting answers. Thanks!! The upgrade Win 98 CD will work for using the upgrade CD to either upgrade over the previous Win 98 or clean installing by replacing the Win 98 CD when prompted during the install of XP. OEM versions of XP cannot perform an upgrade, but retail versions can upgrade or clean install. You boot from the CD and do a clean install. Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar. How to clean install XP. http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html -- Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP http://michaelstevenstech.com For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader. http://michaelstevenstech.com/outloo...snewreader.htm |
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XP upgrade from oem or retail?
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Spanky typed: I need to buy a new harddrive for 2 reasons: 1) I was sold a pirated OS, Why does that mean you need a new hard drive? If that's your only problem, just get rid of the pirated version and install a legal version. 2) my harddrive is old and about to crash. How do you know it's about to crash? Hard drives *can* last for a good number of years. Can I use a legit oem version of Win98 (that came with my computer years ago) and install it on my new drive, then buy the XP upgrade and install it over my oem Win98? NO, that's not necessary if your Windows 98 OEM CD is a regular installation CD, not a Restore CD. Despite what many people think, the requirement to use an upgrade version is to *own* a previous qualifying version's installation CD (not an OEM restore CD), not to have it installed. Just boot from the XP upgrade CD. When setup doesn't find a previous qualifying version installed, it will prompt you to insert its CD as proof of ownership. Just insert the previous version's CD, and follow the prompts. Everything proceeds quite normally and quite legitimately. But if yours is a restore CD, then you can do as you suggest. I heard that the XP upgrade only works for retail versions of windows, NOT oem versions. No, not correct. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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