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?

>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.
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