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beto - 29 Oct 2003 22:36 GMT
Hello all,
I have a windowns 98 machine that I upgraded to 2000.  The
harddrive crashed last week and I bought me a new one.  
Can I use windows 2000 upgrade edition cd on this machine
eventhough its a fresh install?
Dave Patrick - 29 Oct 2003 23:18 GMT
To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 CD-Rom or setup disks.
The set of four install disks can be created from your Win2k CD-rom; change
to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and execute makeboot.exe (from dos)
or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

During Windows 2000 setup, at some point, will want to confirm the previous
operating system for the upgrade; at that point you'll simply insert the
qualified product install CD for it to verify. Then the install will
proceed.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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> Hello all,
> I have a windowns 98 machine that I upgraded to 2000.  The
> harddrive crashed last week and I bought me a new one.
> Can I use windows 2000 upgrade edition cd on this machine
> eventhough its a fresh install?
 
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