Erase/reinstall

[Michael]

My computer has been sick for quite sometime now and my
renewal to Norton has done me absolutely no good. I want
to format my hard drive and reinstall windows xp home
edition but the problem lies in the fact that it was
originally an upgrade edition. Will that mean I won't be
able to reinstall windows using the CD that I bought?

Thanks in advance

Mike

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

As long as you have a qualifying product CD (retail type, not "recovery") you can do a clean install with the XP CD.

 

[SteveL]

What Doug means is that you will need your old 9X/ME/NT/or
2K CD, XP will ask for at 1 point to verify that you did
have a qualifying product. Insert cd into drive Power down
your PC, then boot up, this will prevent memory present
viruses if you have any.

Good Luck

-----Original Message-----
As long as you have a qualifying product CD (retail type,

not "recovery") you can do a clean install with the XP
CD.