Re: Can't produce qualifying media for XP Upgrade...
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 06/28/04
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:34:34 +0100
Greyhound wrote:
>A year later, the system's pretty crufty and I want to do a clean
>re-install.
>
>>From what I've read, I'm going to have a problem when the installer
>asks me to produce qualifying media.
>
>I have a few possibilities that, from the various accounts I've read,
>MIGHT work:
>
>1. I have a W98 Upgrade CD. I get the feeling this one's out.
That will work fine; show it to the XP setup when it asks where Windows
is; when then a blue screen asks for a CD put the XP one back. For
procedure: boot the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the license
agreement take New Install. When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC;
select and delete the current partition and make a new RAW one to be
formatted at the next stage
The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one
It is just after that it will ask for the qualifying CD
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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