Re-installing XP

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BadgerHarvey

I have the XP Home Edition CD Upgrade and am trying to re-
install and get clean up everything that's currently on
my system. The disk wants to creat a new partition and
install another copy of xp - how do i just re-install
 
BadgerHarvey said:
I have the XP Home Edition CD Upgrade and am trying to re-
install and get clean up everything that's currently on
my system. The disk wants to creat a new partition and
install another copy of xp - how do i just re-install
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Run the CD from the existing system. Enter Install, change Upgrade to
New Install, then when it asks you to confirm where, you can 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

I think that this will also have detected that it was a legitimate
upgrade, and not even ask for the previous system's CD as evidence, but
am not certain on that

First read up at www.aumha.org/a/wpa.htm and particularly the Hint in
formatting drive to conserve one 'life' in Product activation
 

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