Re: Problem, please help...please read me...

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Gord
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:23:45 -0800

Myron

SOL = Sh*t Outta Luck

Gord

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:00:42 -0800, "Myron J. Mandell" <anonymous@msn.com>
wrote:

>Not sure what "SOL" means, but I guess you are there.
>
>You will need to purchase a retail version of XP Home or Pro, whichever your
>brother's trial was.
>If you still have your Win98 CD, a retail upgrade version will do.
>
>Set the BIOS of your computer to boot off your new CD. With luck, it will
>find your
>existing but expired copy of XP and upgrade it to a legal version. If you
>purchased an upgrade CD, you can satisfy it by inserting your Win98 media
>when it is requested.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Myron
>
>P. S. If you used your brother's cd to upgrade your win98, you had the
>opportunity to uninstall until the 30 days were up. However, since your
>Win98 system was problematic, that might have been a bad idea anyway.
>
>"dianesardella@hotmail.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message news:032701c3fa8f$8a3062c0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> I was given a computer that had a perfectly good copy of
>> windows 98 UNTIL it froze up and (crashed?) I suppose.
>> My brother had a WindowsXP 30 day trial version that
>> allowed me to install over my 98 and start new. However,
>> my 30 days is up and it won't let me do anything. It
>> keeps asking to re-install, the disk I have and when it
>> looks for a file called e:\368 it says something is wrong
>> with the disk. Can someone tell me how to just take the
>> XP operating system out, or maybe recover my old 98 or am
>> I "SOL"?
>

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