searching for previous versions??

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I am attempting to boot from Windows XP home cd. I am needing to format my
computer so that I might donate it with the o/s installed and nothing else.
The setup is stopped at Searching for previous editions of Microsoft
Windows. Any advice, please? I appreciate this newsgroup. Dick Ross
 
You apparently have an XP upgrade CD. You need to stick the CD for the
previous operating system in the drive.

[[You will need to have a qualifying Win98/Me/2000 CD to insert if you are
using an upgrade version of XP to clean install. OEM restore disks will
usually not fulfill the qualifying requirement. If the restore disk has a
i386 folder, it will usually work.]]

[[If you are using the upgrade version of XP on a computer without any
version of Windows currently installed, this is where you will replace the
XP CD with your qualifying CD, XP setup will scan the qualifying CD and
instruct you to replace it with the XP CD to continue XP setup; otherwise,
you will not see this screen. Clean install qualifying media can be any of
the following Win NT3.51, 4.0, 2000, Win 95, 98, Me and XP Home when
upgrading to XP Pro.]]
From....
Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
 
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