Reinstalling XP Home

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mmitsch

I am going to get a new hard drive this morning to put in my computer running
MS Windows XP Home. I bought the XP Home software years ago as an upgrade
version. I am worried that when I put in the new hard drive it may want my
original windows 98 cd but I cannot find it. Can anyone help me with this?

Mike
 
M

MAP

mmitsch said:
I am going to get a new hard drive this morning to put in my computer
running MS Windows XP Home. I bought the XP Home software years ago
as an upgrade version. I am worried that when I put in the new hard
drive it may want my original windows 98 cd but I cannot find it.
Can anyone help me with this?

Mike
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I've looked all over the place as well but I can't find your 98 cd either,
sorry.
 
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Lem

mmitsch said:
I am going to get a new hard drive this morning to put in my computer running
MS Windows XP Home. I bought the XP Home software years ago as an upgrade
version. I am worried that when I put in the new hard drive it may want my
original windows 98 cd but I cannot find it. Can anyone help me with this?

Mike
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Perhaps, if you explained *why* you are getting a new drive and what you
are planning to do.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
 
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JS

New drives like Maxtor and Western Digital (that are not OEM versions) come
with a CD that includes a drive copy utility. If you have an OEM Hard Drive
that did not come with this disk then go to the Manufacturer's web site.

You may also look into 'Image Backups' since you can no longer find your XP
Home CD.
Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost12

True Image (has a 15 day trial version also)
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Also copying disk to disk with Norton Ghost
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...hot&prod=Norton+Ghost&ver=10.0&csm=no&seg=hho

JS
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

If you want to do a clean installation then you will need a cd from a
previous edition of Windows. It does not have to be Win98 but those are
easy enough to get on eBay. Otherwise you will need to use an imaging
program as recommended by JS.
 
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Uncle Grumpy

mmitsch said:
I am going to get a new hard drive this morning to put in my computer running
MS Windows XP Home. I bought the XP Home software years ago as an upgrade
version. I am worried that when I put in the new hard drive it may want my
original windows 98 cd but I cannot find it. Can anyone help me with this?
Click to expand...

CLONE your old hard drive to the new one and forget about all your
worries.

It will save you tons of time and will keep all your installed
programs for you.
 
U

Uncle Grumpy

Lem said:
Perhaps, if you explained *why* you are getting a new drive and what you
are planning to do.
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That really looks like a dumb reply to me.

Most likely, the OP wants a larger drive.
 
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Uncle Grumpy

Colin Barnhorst said:
If you want to do a clean installation then you will need a cd from a
previous edition of Windows. It does not have to be Win98 but those are
easy enough to get on eBay. Otherwise you will need to use an imaging
program as recommended by JS.
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READING IS A SKILL... that you apparently need training in.

You paid no attention to what the OP posted.

The OP was INSTALLING A NEW HARD DRIVE.

No need for any change to the installation... the OP merely needs to
clone the old drive to the new drive.
 
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Lem

Uncle said:
That really looks like a dumb reply to me.

Most likely, the OP wants a larger drive.
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It's nice to know that there's a mind reader who follows these
newsgroups. I'll remember to refer posts with insufficient information
to you in the future.

*Perhaps* the OP just wanted a bigger hard drive. Or perhaps his drive
crashed and he needs to replace it and reinstall the OS and all of his
apps and data.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
 
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mmitsch

Sorry to be too vague for you. The hard drive in the machine is a very old
30gb. I am buying a newer and faster 500gb. The old drive is up and running
at present.

Others seem to be offering up some answers so I will read on through the
posts but I would appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks!

Mike
 
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mmitsch

Yes, I want a larger hard drive. The old one is still running if that helps
my situation at all.

Mike
 
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mmitsch

Thanks for the response! I guess I will look for an old cd or get one. It's
been a while since I got XP Home so I may have quite a search on my hands --
your ebay idea is good too.

Thanks!

Mike
 

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