Carey, I've always been curious about whether the 2000 cd would be accepted
by XP Home Upgrade edition as a qualifying product. Of course Home cannot
upgrade an installation of 2000, but I have never tried using the 2000 cd to
meet the requirement during a clean install using a Home Upgrade edition.
Just curious if it would work the same as a Win95 cd does.

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Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Unless you have an old Microsoft Windows 98 or 2000 CD,
> you won't be able to perform a clean install with only an
> Upgrade Version of Windows XP...you'll need to purchase
> a "Full Version".
>
> Clean Install Windows XP
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
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>
> "Sdruws" wrote:
>
> | I have a too much loaded computer and willing to re-install XP, starting
> | from scratch by formatting drive C:.
> | However I do not a Windows XP Pro full version, only the upgrade.
> | Questions : How can I format drive C: from Windows, if all possible ?
> | How can I install upgrade version if drive will be
> empty
> | and has no former Windows installation to compare to ?
>