reinstall XP

[bill]

I will be reinstalling my XP Home Edit soon. It's been on my system for 3
years. It is the upgrade version.

I will be formatting my HD. Will I have to start with my WIN 98 pgm and
then install XP or will it simply(the install disc)format and reinstall from
current?

Do I have to contact MSFT for any reason?

tks all


bw

 

[Guest]

Hi bill,

You can perform a clean install with the upgrade disk, you would not have to
install 98 and then perform the upgrade. During the installation with the
upgrade CD, you will be asked for qualifying media....at that point, insert
the install CD for 98 (or other qualifying Windows version). For further
information about clean installing XP, have a look here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html



Regards,

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I will be reinstalling my XP Home Edit soon. It's been on my system
for 3 years.

Your choice, of course, but if your point is that after three years, you are
due for a reinstall, I completely disgaree. A well-maintained system should
never need to be reinstalled. I ran Windows XP on this machjine here from
the day it was released until Vista was realeased and I never needed to
reinstall it. the same is true of my wife's machine, which is still running
XP.

It is the upgrade version.

I will be formatting my HD. Will I have to start with my WIN 98 pgm
and then install XP or will it simply(the install disc)format and
reinstall from current?

The requirement to use an upgrade version is to *own* a previous qualifying
version's installation CD ), not to have it installed. When setup doesn't
find a previous qualifying version installed, it will prompt you to insert
its CD as proof of ownership. Just insert the previous version's CD, and
follow the prompts. Everything proceeds quite normally and quite
legitimately.

 

[Rock]

I will be reinstalling my XP Home Edit soon. It's been on my system for 3
years. It is the upgrade version.

I will be formatting my HD. Will I have to start with my WIN 98 pgm and
then install XP or will it simply(the install disc)format and reinstall
from current?

Do I have to contact MSFT for any reason?

To add to the other replies, it has to be an installation CD for win98, not
an OEM recovery CD. If that's all you have then Win98 will have to be
reinstalled first before doing the upgrade.

 

[bill]

Hi Ken, you mentioned well maintained system, well Ken I am not a qualified
MVP and probably make too many add ons and hard for me to straighten it out,
so a reinstall is probably best for folks like me.

Tks always for great advice Ken.

bill