Re-installation of XP: Problem?

[Bob Cunningham]

I am now running Windows XP. The Norton System Works I was
using with Windows 98 won't work with XP, so I had to buy a
completely new copy. But I can't install it, because it
says I can't install until I uninstall the version I was
using with W98. But it won't let me uninstall that version;
it says there's a necessary file missing to do the
uninstall. The Norton people have been no help on this.

I want to do the following steps:

1. Uninstall Windows XP.
2. Install Windows 98 from a set of disaster-recovery
disks.
3. Uninstall Norton System Works.
4. Install Windows XP.
5. Install the XP version of NSW.

My question is: Since I've already installed Windows XP
once, and since they carefully control and prohibit
installing it more than once, will I get into trouble the
second time I try to install it?

 

[Frank]

Follow these instructions and you can reinstall with out
reactivating. You might have to boot into safe mode to
get this file to copy back into Windows.

If you're worried about OS reactivation or need to run a
repair when you don't have Internet access, you can make
a copy of the system license file (wpa.dbl) which is in
the \winnt\system32 folder, before you run the repair.
After the repair finishes, copy wpa.dbl back to the
system32 directory and you won't need to reactivate. Be
aware that this process works only with retail copies of
XP.