Reinstall Win XP pro from an upgrade edition after reformating a d

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My son's Dell 8100 has a trojan virus Symantec reports can't be killed that
is located in the System32 folder. If tried to manually delete it but that
doesn't work either.

I'm going to reformat the drive and reinstall Win XP-Pro but his copy is an
upgrade edition. Is there anything I can do, short of installing Win-98, that
will tell the upgrade CD that a previous copy of Win is present?

 

[Keith AH]

Boot to the cd it will prompt you for the qualifying version Put the WinCd
in and continue with the install

 

[Michael Stevens]

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My son's Dell 8100 has a trojan virus Symantec reports can't be
killed that is located in the System32 folder. If tried to manually
delete it but that doesn't work either.

I'm going to reformat the drive and reinstall Win XP-Pro but his copy
is an upgrade edition. Is there anything I can do, short of
installing Win-98, that will tell the upgrade CD that a previous copy
of Win is present?

Have you tried removing the infected file fom safe mode?
To clean install XP with the Upgrade version see the step by step linked
below.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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