From: Colgrove, George (George.Colgrove_at_state.vt.us)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 07:42:33 EST
Actually, I did a clean install of an XP upgrade. All it did was ask for
the CD, I put in my 98 disk and the OS installed. Simple. I tried to do a
straight upgrade and it got bogged down saying it needed to go online to get
more software. Since I really didn't want to do that, I saved all my files
to a CD, then reformatted the HDD and installed the upgrade fresh. I
recommend this anyway since you get rid of all your garbage that Windoze
likes to collect over time. Windoze is a very messy operating system and
very inefficient. I usually do a clean install twice a year to keep my
machine running smoothly. I went over a year or so and it just slowed down
to a crawl. Reinstalled everything just the same, and it became almost
twice as fast.
Geo
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Ray Bayles [mailto:canyonlands_at_theriver.com]
|Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:30 PM
|To: Harry Teszler
|Cc: Thinkpad List
|Subject: Re: Clean XP pro upgrade install in 770 ED
|
|
|No, you cannot. It will look for an installed version of certain
|previous editions, and one version will not work... it is listed on
|the XP upgrade package... It does this because not all versions of
|Windows are upgradable... you can find information on the microsoft
|web site on the XP upgrades.
|
|Easy enough to install the earlier OS, but it wastes about 30 to 45
|minutes.
|
|The boys and girls at Microsoft knew people would try to get around
|the spending of the big bucks, and slipped in a solid fix.
|
|Ray
|
|
|
|Harry Teszler wrote:
|>
|> Can I make a clean XP pro install on a virgin HDD (with no
|previous OS) with
|> the upgrade version ?
|>
|> I mean how will Microsoft check if I have a previous version
|? Will the CD
|> of Win 98 be enough for that ?
|>
|> Thanks in advance and regards from Uruguay , Harry.
|
|--
|
|The problems that exist in the world today
|cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
|
| Albert Einstein
|
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