Use the upgrade. You can do it two ways: Format the hard drive, boot

the XP CD, start setup and be asked to show your Win98 CD as evidence

(OK as long as it is a proper retail disk not one of the proprietary

'restore' ones).

or

Run the XP CD from the existing system, take Install. NExt page

change Upgrade to New install, from which select the current

partition, and format it: by then it will have already made the

             eligibility check

Good Luck,

Marg Belliveau

----- Original Message -----
From: "Demetri Kolokotronis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Upgrade OS


> It has been advised, for best results, particularly with WinXP, format,
> and do clean install of new OS, rather than install upgrade over the top.
> What if have upgrade version, to save money; format, and do clean
> install?
>
> Demetri Kolokotronis

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