Fresh Install from XP Upgrade Ed.

[pIII_Man]

I'm Pretty sure it's possible, I have the upgrade version of xp but i would like to install it on my recently formated hard drive. I do have windows 98se but it would be a pain to install that and then xp. Any sugestions or websites would be helpful

 

[rook]

If memory servers (been a long time, sence the first day XP came out) just boot with the XP CD as a fresh install. If anything it will ask for the 98 CD just to make sure that you have it, but it should install the same as the full version. I can't imagine that if you upgrade to XP, then your system were to crash down the road that you'd have to reinstall 98 then upgrade to XP.

"Quotes are for people that can't think for themselves"

 

[pIII_Man]

No but i Have the upgrade version of xp (not bootable) and the setup is a program that requires windows, however i have just figured out how to do this, that is install windows xp on a brand spanking new hard drive using Windows xP professional upgrade, not the full win xp version. Will keep everyone posted though cause this could save people some time if they for some reason need to format their hard drive and don't have the full version of xp.

 

[Bardic]

If you boot with a 98 CD/bootdisk and try to run setup off the XP CD you get "cannot be run in MS-Dos mode" or something, but if you boot with a 98 CD, and then browse to the I386 folder on the XP CD, and then type NetSetup it will install like it should.

And then it should ask for your Win98 CD to verify that you are in fact upgrading, even though the harddrive was formatted.

With the 98 Upgrade you could fool windows into thinking that it was upgrading by taking a formatted harddrive, making a Windows Folder, and then making a 0 Byte file called win.com and it would think that it was upgrading.

You could also use a full version as an upgrade by renaming win.com to something else like win.co_

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Bardic on 04/16/03 01:25 PM.</EM></FONT></P>