Help with Home edtion upgrade

[Guest]

I just format my hard drive which has windows home edtion upgrade on it, and
and I can't find my windows ME to install to upgrade to home edtion. I don't
know what to do to install the windows upgrade ...any suggestion ?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Unless you come across an old Microsoft Windows
95/98/ME installation CD, you'll be unable to install
the upgrade version of Windows XP Home Edition.
A "Full Version" of Windows XP Home Edition is what
you'll need to purchase.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I just format my hard drive which has windows home edtion upgrade on it, and
| and I can't find my windows ME to install to upgrade to home edtion. I don't
| know what to do to install the windows upgrade ...any suggestion ?

 

[Malke]

I just format my hard drive which has windows home edtion upgrade on
it, and and I can't find my windows ME to install to upgrade to home
edtion. I don't know what to do to install the windows upgrade ...any
suggestion ?

You don't need to install ME first. During the XP installation, you will
be asked to provide qualifying media (your ME disk). Obviously, if
you've lost your ME disk you can't do this. Borrow a qualifying disk
from a friend or you'll need to purchase the full version of XP.

Qualifying Media -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/matrix.mspx

Malke

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Borrow a friends Win95/98/ME disk, any of them will work as a qualifier. No
files are used from those disks, they just allow the upgrade disk to do a
clean installation.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Vagabond Software]

I just format my hard drive which has windows home edtion upgrade on it,
and
and I can't find my windows ME to install to upgrade to home edtion. I
don't
know what to do to install the windows upgrade ...any suggestion ?

Bid on one these:

http://tinyurl.com/cqo9w

Or select a Buy It Now option for Windows Millenium Edition. An upgrade
version of Windows ME will work for you. All you really need is the CD.

carl

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You don't need to install ME first. During the XP installation, you
will be asked to provide qualifying media (your ME disk). Obviously,
if you've lost your ME disk you can't do this. Borrow a qualifying
disk from a friend or you'll need to purchase the full version of XP.

Yes, but rather than buy a Full version of XP, I'd recommend buying a used
copy of a qualifying product--Windows 98 or Me--which would be very
inexpensive and save a lot of money.

 

[Guest]

Thanks to you all for the reply, I just get an old win98 from a friend and I
did a test it did start to work , and I will do the installation later today
... thanks again