Re: Hosed during upgrade install

From: Thomas Andrews (thomaso_at_best.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 01:36:21 -0400

Harry Ohrn wrote:
> Your mistake was purchasing an Upgrade version of XP when you no longer had
> a Windows 98 CD to satisfy the request. That's not Microsoft's fault.

The XP upgrade says on the box it "detects" a valid version of the OS.
But that's beside the point - I wouldn't have been *very* angry if the
XP install had stopped before nuking '98.

> However beyond that if you had a working Windows 98 Desktop then you should
> have booted to the Desktop and popped the XP CD into the drive. From there
> you could choose "Install"->"Upgrade" and XP would have immediately found
> the files it needed and the install would have proceeded. But had you not
> taken that route and chose instead to boot off the XP CD it would have taken
> a few minutes to install some setup files and would have requested a
> qualifying product like your Windows 98 CD before going any further. Your
> problem with the request being made an hour into the setup is not the norm
> at all.

I did insert the CD after booting '98. It never quibbled about the OS
until it was done destroying my '98 installation. (I skipped the step
where the software upgrades the setup files because my network card was
the problem that caused me to upgrade in the first place, and the
installation step seemed to require a network connection.)

[ The original problem was that my network card wasn't working. I had
been trying to fix it, and accidentally uninstalled some drivers,
disabling my network connection, making it impossible for me to download
the drivers, so I decided it would be easiest to upgrade. ]

=thomas

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