It's simple.  Borrowing someone's CD is illegal and against the Microsoft
EULA.  If you yourself owned a previous version, you are entitled to use
the upgrade version to do a "clean" install.  However, the EULA limits this
to versions of Windows that you actually PAID for.  For example, I am a
beta tester for MS.  I get beta CD's in the mail all of the time.  They
usually give out a full version of the software to a beat tester when the
program is complete.  Under the EULA I cannot use that CD to qualify for an
upgrade since I did not pay for it.

At 09:50 PM 3/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>So why would anyone pay extra for the so-called full install? All you
>would need to do is borrow someone's OS CD.
>
> >Yes, I did this with XP.  I had just bought a new drive and did a clean
> >install of XP.  As the previous poster said, the install routine will ask
> >you to insert a CD to prove that you qualify for the upgrade.  Worked like a
> >charm.  And from what I've read, if you want to use NTFS, it's supposed to
> >be best to start with a clean install NTFS-formatted.
> >
> >
> >> Has anyone actually done this with XP?  As I said in my post I knew it
> >could be done up through Win 98 SE, but it did not work with Win Me using
> >the upgrade.  If there is some trick to doing it with XP and Win ME,
> please tell everyone how to do it.
> >>

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