Easy Newbie XP Purchase Question: Upgrade or Full

[Dave]

Hi, I'm almost embarassed to ask this question, but if I
purchase XP professional Upgrade, will I have to reinstall
the previous OS, then XP in case of a crash?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

No, as long as the previous OS media is a fully installable version, not a
"recovery CD", you can do a clean install and give it the previous version's
CD when it asks.

 

[Willit]

What you have to do is make a image or a bootable backup
of your install.

Try this, it will save you time and money to do it
right.If you don't you'll learn a hard lesson.

Buy a second Hard drive $69.00 these days and a good
copy/backup program to make a clone. XP-Casper is one.

http://www.fssdev.com/products/ $ 39.00 make the clone
and then un-plug the power to the drive if you want.

Want to test drive a Demo for 30 days. It has some
features disabled.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2248-10161152.html?
tag=lst-1-8

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi, I'm almost embarassed to ask this question, but if I
purchase XP professional Upgrade, will I have to reinstall
the previous OS, then XP in case of a crash?

If you have a regular CD of the previous system (not one of the
'restore' OEM ones that just copies back an image of the original
state), then all you need do is show the XP Setup that CD in the drive
when it asks where windows is.

If it was such a restore disk, you would have to restore it. Then Run
the CD from that system. Enter Install, change Upgrade to New Install,
then when it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC and get the chance to
select the current partition, delete it, and create a new RAW one,
going on to format it as part of the setup

This will have detected the eligibility to upgrade by that time

 

[DF Seattle]

No, the update disk only wants to "see" a copy of your old system OP to
install.

 

[Malke]

No, the update disk only wants to "see" a copy of your old system OP
to install.

When you start a clean install with an upgrade disk, it will ask you to
insert qualifying media - i.e., your Win9x/ME disk. Then the
installation will proceed because you satisfied the upgrade
requirements.

Malke