Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
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Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 8:10 am
Posted by Doug
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about Clean
up your hard disk:
I want to erase (reformat) my hard drive. The only problem is that my Windows XP
Disk is an upgraded version. Microsoft said to me that I need an older version
in order to use it.
Is there a website I can go to and download an older operating system??? If anyone
knows of any, can you please send me a link??? Anything would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 8:44 am
Posted by Rami Wahdan
(58 messages posted)
do u want to install a fresh copy of windows xp ? or you wana do something with the
cd ? if you put the cd and then restart you will have the option to start the cd
and then you can install windows and delete the old one.
On Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 8:10 am, Doug wrote:
>I have a question about Clean
>up your hard disk:
>
>I want to erase (reformat) my hard drive. The only problem is that my Windows XP
>Disk is an upgraded version. Microsoft said to me that I need an older version
>in order to use it.
>
>Is there a website I can go to and download an older operating system??? If anyone
>knows of any, can you please send me a link??? Anything would be greatly appreciated.
>
>thank you
>
>
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 9:14 am
Posted by Doug
(2 messages posted)
thank you for responding.
I just need an older version of windows so that when I am done reformatting, I can
install the older version and then put in my Windows XP Upgrade disk.
thank you again for responding
On Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 8:44 am, Rami Wahdan wrote:
>do u want to install a fresh copy of windows xp ? or you wana do something with
the
>cd ? if you put the cd and then restart you will have the option to start the cd
>and then you can install windows and delete the old one.
>
>
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 9:26 am
Posted by Paulina
(3264 messages posted)
What they mean is that the upgrade CD needs a qualifying OS disk in order to install
XP. So you need something like a 98SE CD or later. You can probably get one relatively
cheaply - but not for download that I know of
Paulina
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 2:02 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(11293 messages posted)
Joe's List
Falcon's cleanup
See here for how to do a clean install of an upgrade version of Windows XP:
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/win/xp/clean.htm
Repair install WinXP
Clean install WinXP
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Friday, February 17, 2006 at 10:36 am
Posted by Bill
(12 messages posted)
M$ has fooled a lot of people with so-called "Full" vs Upgrade Versions starting
with win98.
Any Update version will install if you can prove you had any older win OS. There
are many sites that you can download a winME boot disk. That is all that is needed.
If you have a CD cool.
Have fun BILL
On Tuesday, August 2, 2005 at 9:26 am, Paulina wrote:
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>What they mean is that the upgrade CD needs a qualifying OS disk in order to install
>XP. So you need something like a 98SE CD or later. You can probably get one relatively
>cheaply - but not for download that I know of
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>Paulina
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