XP Upgrade or XP Full question

[Guest]

Hi,

Here's my situation. I bought a new hard drive for my laptop which, at the
time was running Win 2000 but originally had Win 98 SE on it.

Norton Ghost overwrote my MBR and I all I got was "Missing Operating System"
when I tried to boot. All my data was there and I was able to copy the
contents off the old hard drive to another machine using a USB enclosure.

But, as I understand it the only way to get the drive to function now
is to reformat it and start from scratch. Having never been enamoured with
Win 2000 I thought I'd just put on XP. So, I have a two hard drives, one
that is not bootable, but has Win 2000, and the other that has Win 98.

So, I qualify for the upgrade, but what I'd like to do is to reformat both
and start from scratch and put on XP on the newer 40 gig drive (the one with
98) and then format the old drive and use it as a 6gig drive off the USB port.

So, the question is. Do I need Win 98 on that drive to do the install off
the Upgrade XP disk, or, is it ok to reformat and do a clean install as long
as I have the 98 "certificate of authenticity" code?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[Kerry Brown]

Hi,

Here's my situation. I bought a new hard drive for my laptop which, at
the
time was running Win 2000 but originally had Win 98 SE on it.

Norton Ghost overwrote my MBR and I all I got was "Missing Operating
System"
when I tried to boot. All my data was there and I was able to copy the
contents off the old hard drive to another machine using a USB enclosure.

But, as I understand it the only way to get the drive to function now
is to reformat it and start from scratch. Having never been enamoured
with
Win 2000 I thought I'd just put on XP. So, I have a two hard drives, one
that is not bootable, but has Win 2000, and the other that has Win 98.

So, I qualify for the upgrade, but what I'd like to do is to reformat both
and start from scratch and put on XP on the newer 40 gig drive (the one
with
98) and then format the old drive and use it as a 6gig drive off the USB
port.

So, the question is. Do I need Win 98 on that drive to do the install off
the Upgrade XP disk, or, is it ok to reformat and do a clean install as
long
as I have the 98 "certificate of authenticity" code?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Bob

If the XP upgrade install doesn't find a qualified installation on the hard
drive it will ask you to insert a qualified CD. Put your Win98 or Win2k CD
in the drive when prompted and your good to go.

Kerry