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WinXp upgrade

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brjames

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Ok, so I'm thoroughly in the Linux crowd and have been for the past year, but eventually I'm going to want a Windows machine at home. I've still got the old Win9x/2000 cds around someplace, and I know that I'll have to have some version of them installed on the computer when I try to use the upgrade cd.

I remember having to re-install the OS numerous times a year when I still used Windows, and I always liked to do a clean install and reformat instead of installing over the old OS. From friends I hear that the situation hasn't improved that much with XP.

[Ok, enough background information]

Now the question: can an XP upgrade cd reformat a hard drive and still install?
 
I have the WinXP Pro upgrade, and YES, it can format, and even partition a hard drive. Since you have the old Win2k CD's, that's all you need. It asks for the old OS cd, you pop it in, it scans the cd, then it asks for you ti re-insert your WinXP cd.

As long as you have the old OS cd, winXP upgrade, CAN format and partition hard drives. I've done it 8 times already, and it only asked me for the old OS cd one time out of those 8.
 
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