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Reinstalling XP Home

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Reinstalling XP Home

Jan 18th, 2007

I purchased a PC that originally had Windows Me on it.
I later installed th XP Home Upgrade Edition.

I plan on installing a new hard drive and doing a fresh install
of XP Home Edition. Since this is only the Upgrade version,
does this mean that I will have to reinstall Windows Me AND
reinstall the XP Home version, or is there a better way?

Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks.

Mike

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Re: Reinstalling XP Home

Jan 18th, 2007

Unfortunately the only way without purchasing a new copy of Windows XP you would have to install Windows ME then run the upgrade to Windows XP.

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Re: Reinstalling XP Home

Jan 19th, 2007

your speaking crap pabs31.

My dads pc had me and we upgraded it to XP but then we had to reinstall it after a couple of months.

We booted off the XP cd and it asked us whether we wanted to insert the 98/ME disk or have it scan the hdd for an upgradeable OS. We put the me disk in and it checked it was valid - after that XP installed fine.

This was on a 2003/4 version of XP, maybe you cant do this anymore?

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