An Upgrade Question

Hi
I have just bought a new ASUS laptop, which comes with Win XP Prof installed
and 2 Recovery CDs. I have also just noticed that the hard drive is
formatted as type FAT32 (yuck!). Reason given to me: Only way the Recovery
CDs can be used.
Therefore, I cannot just go and reformat the drive to NTFS because then I
would have no backup of the OS.
My question: Since I have already paid for the existing OS, is it possible
for me to buy an upgrade version? Would I have to make a special request to
Microsoft for this? Or do I have to pay the full cost of a retail version.
Many thanks.
Paul.


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