installing xp home upgrade on new HD

[jonwitte]

I recently upgraded to XP Home from 98SE. Unfortunately
the disk crashed 2 days ago and is nonrecoverable. Must I
install 98SE first on the new drive and then install XP
ugrade or is there a shortcut method built into the XP
ugrade CD, such as asking for the 98SE CD and key during
the install?

 

[Mike Hall]

Boot from the XP cd.. it will ask you for proof of a previous OS..

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| I recently upgraded to XP Home from 98SE. Unfortunately
| the disk crashed 2 days ago and is nonrecoverable. Must I
| install 98SE first on the new drive and then install XP
| ugrade or is there a shortcut method built into the XP
| ugrade CD, such as asking for the 98SE CD and key during
| the install?

 

[Steve C. Ray]

No need to install 98 first. Boot from the XP CD (you may have to go into
BIOS and set the CD drive as the first boot device). You can then partition,
format and install XP. It will ask you to insert the qualifying disk.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It is possible to perform a clean installation using an Upgrade
CD.

Simply boot from the WinXP Upgrade CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. The Upgrade CD checks to see if a qualifying OS
is installed, and, if it finds none, it asks you to insert the
installation media (CD) of that OS. Unfortunately, an OEM
"Recovery/Restore" CD will not work for this purpose; you must have a
true installation CD, complete with the "\Win98" folder and *.cab
files, or the "\i386" folder of WinNT/2K.

Alternatively, or especially if all you have is an OEM Recovery CD
for the earlier OS, you can even start the upgrade from within the
current Win98/Me/NT/2K installation, and still elect to perform a
clean installation, to include formatting the drive. In this case,
there's no further request for the qualifying OS's installation CD,
because the installation routing "remembers" that you started from
within the qualifying OS. This process is more time-consuming, but
you get the same results: a clean installation of WinXP.


Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

I recently upgraded to XP Home from 98SE. Unfortunately
the disk crashed 2 days ago and is nonrecoverable. Must I
install 98SE first on the new drive and then install XP
ugrade or is there a shortcut method built into the XP
ugrade CD, such as asking for the 98SE CD and key during
the install?

If you have a regular 98SE CD (including a Win98 folder containing .cab
files) then you can use that as evidence. Boot the XP CD, go into
Setup and New install will be the only possibility. A little way down
it will asks where windows is; put the 98 CD in the drive and point to
it; when you get a blue screen asking for a CD by number, put the XP one
back. You will not need the 98 Key

An OEM 'restore' CD will not work: for that you would need to use it to
restore, then run the XP CD from it as before