I thought someone had answered your question.  I bought the WinXP Pro
upgrade cd and did a clean install on a brand new hard drive in a completely
new computer that I built. I  inserted my Win2000 cd when the installation
program asked for proof of an eligible product.  You can use Win98, Win98SE,
WinME, WinNT or Win2k as the eligible product.  Win95 won't qualify.
I believe that the only Windows version that you could not do this with was
the Win98SE upgrade cd which required you to install Win98 first.


Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Upgrade OS


> Probably everyone on the list is aware that using someone else's CD is a
violation of the law, but I am equally sure that it happens a lot, and I
think MS knows that also.  I thought that was the reason they stopped making
it possible, among other things, to do a clean full install from an upgrade
CD.  I also thought that they intended that XP could only be installed on
one machine, and that you could NOT do a clean full install off an XP
upgrade CD.  I cannot get anyone to directly answer this question.  Did
anyone on this list start with a new clean or an old formatted drive, and
using the XP upgrade CD do a clean full install?  If so, how?

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