Upgrade

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yes and no. Home edition upgrade requires you to already
have a Windows o/s on your system to "upgrade" to winxp.
The regular home edition is a full install. Does not
require any other o/s to be installed. However you can
trick the upgrade into thinking it is a full version.
Start the install with the upgrade disk in drive.
(assuming hdd is formatted.) System will detect no other
o/s installed on system. It will request your winme or
win98 install disk. Pull the xp cd and insert the other
windows disk. It will accept the install disk. You wait
till the next question it will ask, then remove the win
98/me disk, reinsert the winxp cd. The system now knows
you own win 98/me and will install a complete xp from the
upgrade disk.
 
Home edition upgrade requires you to already
have a Windows o/s on your system to "upgrade" to >winxp
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Not quite right as you do not need it already installed but you must have
the CD of a previous OS. During the installation of an XP clean install with
an upgrade disc it will ask for verification of a previous Windows.
 
Some new media folks operate the same way. See a mistake, and jump all over
it and ignore the entire content.
Dave
 
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