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Date: | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:03:32 -0500 |
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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.
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> >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.
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> >> 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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