Reformatted Hard Drive - Can't Install Win XP Upgrade

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My hard drive was seriously corrupted, so I opted to reformat and reinstall WinXP. My WinXP Pro cd is an upgrade version and I chucked my Win95 floppys and my Win 98 cd a couple of months ago. Now that I have formatted the drive, WinXP won't let me install Windows because I don't have a prior version

Somebody please help

Thanks

Basil

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

My hard drive was seriously corrupted, so I opted to reformat and
reinstall WinXP. My WinXP Pro cd is an upgrade version and I chucked
my Win95 floppys and my Win 98 cd a couple of months ago. Now that I
have formatted the drive, WinXP won't let me install Windows because
I don't have a prior version.

Somebody please help -

Thanks -

Basil

You might look around for a low priced version of 98, this would be cheaper
than buying the full version of XP.

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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