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another XP prob......loading XP.

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Stallion

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I bought a few XP OS's today. 2 upgrades and 2 full versions. Question. Do I actually need to have an OS (95,98,ME) loaded to use the upgrade version or can I just load it like a new install?


I have a clean install. New HDD, just fdisked and formatted and now I am having problems with the install from the upgrade version with no old OS installed. Will it work this way or do I need to go back and load 98 then the upgrade to XP?
 
Stallion, on a fresh install, WinXP should ask where the previous version of Windows is located; at this point point it to your CD-Rom drive and have you previous copy of Win in it. That should be all you need? Does this help?
 
Zim, I never got that far. I can't boot from my CD rom and if I try to boot from a 98 bootdisk it will work but then I get an error that says I cant load XP rom DOS. 🙁
 
Go to microsoft.com and search the knowledge base.

In the upper right corner is a support tab, which will become a drop down menu with an option for knowledge base, select it.
This will take you to the knowledge base, when you get there select Windows XP as the product and search for a boot disk.

Somewere in the several search results will be on that is a boot disk system for XP. Download that file (about 4 mb), which is an extractable dos-like program that will create the 6 disk windows XP boot disk set.

Then pop those disks in just as you would a win 98 boot disk, with you XP disk in the cd-rom and it should work.
 
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