Windows XP Upgrade with OEM Full version CD?

A

Andy

Consider this:
We have a user who has purchased a new system that came
with XP Pro OEM. Their old Machine has Windows 2000 retail
on it as well as all of their programs and DATA, they are
missing some of the original installation media for some
of their critical Apps, so a clean install is out of the
question.

I clone the disk from the old system onto the drive from
the new system, and get it running (drivers etc). I pop in
the XP Pro OEM CD, and low and behold, it will not let me
upgrade the existing system to XP Pro.

How do I get around this - The customer is licensed for
both XP Pro and 2000, so this should be a totally
legitamate process.

Andy
 
B

Bruce Chambers

Greetings --

There is no "getting around" it. An OEM CD cannot perform an
upgrade, as it was designed to be installed _only_ upon an empty hard
drive.


Bruce Chambers

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