XP Pro and Hardware upgrades

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I have an update version of xp pro and have upgraded
motherboard, cpu. When I attempt to do a repair
reinstallation, the xp pro disk cannot find the qualifying
windows version (2000 pro) and defaults to requiring the
2000 pro disk to be installed. This disk then requires
that I reinstall thru repartitioning of the disk. Am I
missing something?
 
Why are you doing a repair install. If you had win2k on then you need to do
an upgrade install or clean install.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have an update version of xp pro and have upgraded
motherboard, cpu. When I attempt to do a repair
reinstallation, the xp pro disk cannot find the qualifying
windows version (2000 pro) and defaults to requiring the
2000 pro disk to be installed. This disk then requires
that I reinstall thru repartitioning of the disk. Am I
missing something?
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At the point the WinXP install asks for the qualifying
software, you should just be able to remove the XP cd and
put in your WIN2000 CD. The WinXP install will then
verify the the Win2000 CD. Afterwards it you should be
able to just put the WinXP CD back in and continue with
the install.

You do not end the WinXP install. You just change CDs for
verification purposes. At least that way I have done it
with previous versions, have not had to try it with WinXP
since I have a new-install CD.
 
Russell said:
At the point the WinXP install asks for the qualifying
software, you should just be able to remove the XP cd and
put in your WIN2000 CD. The WinXP install will then
verify the the Win2000 CD. Afterwards it you should be
able to just put the WinXP CD back in and continue with
the install.
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Add: you would cancel any attempt of that Win2000 CD to autorun - though
if following Russell's advice it ought not to do so. IN fact if you are
doing an XP repair correctly, I don't think it should even be asked for:
Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start
Setup (do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after the license
agreement take 'Repair Installation'.
 
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