Re: Qualifying Media for XP - Use What?

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:09:13 -0500

You'll have to replace your lost Windows ME CD.
A Microsoft Windows 95 or 98 CD will also work.

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[ln];326246 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart!  Protect Your PC!
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"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote:
| I have a good XP install (without SP2; SP2 made a similar-setup drive
| unbootable) on a 15 GB HD.
| 
| I'm going to clean install XP on a new 120 GB HD, and then install SP2.
| But XP's install program (I only have an XP pre-SP2 upgrade CD, and I
| lost my original ME CD) is going to ask for qualifying media, which I
| don't think I have.
| 
| I later intend to put the 15 GB on a shelf, as a backup, to keep as a
| working booting XP HD that I can use in case of problems with my new
| setup.
| 
| So how am I going to deal with this qualifying media issue? Should I
| clone the XP installation of the 15 GB HD to the 120 GB HD (I have Ghost
| 2003) and then clean install on the 120 using the old cloned install as
| qualifying media? Laborious, but it should work. Any suggestions?
| 
| I also have a question about how I should partition this new HD, but I
| have another thread (subject:Partitioning for XP & Linux, How Much for
| What?) going on that.
| 
| -- 
|     *********************
|     *  Nehmo Sergheyev  *
|     *********************

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