Hi I am helping out my dad, he currently has ME installed with an XP home upgrade, we dont have the ME disk only packard bell restore disks, so How can I do a fresh install, If i try each disk will it find a portion of ME and install XP????? I could always install my xp pro on his but thats illegal!!! ANY ideas much appreciated. Intel P4 3.00GHZ HT 800MHZ FSB 1.5 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM 256MB RADEON 9600PRO 80GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA 4 GB QUANTUM FIREBALL 5400rpm

Just install the XP Pro and get it running good then upgrade to SP2. Just don't tell anyone and I guarantee you that M$ will not knock on your door.

Hi NEO123 This site gives info on how to clean install with an XP upgrade CD. All that is required is a previous qualifying CD...even an old Win 98 CD will do. Good luck Krystyna

I havnt got an orginal CD of another OS? Intel P4 3.00GHZ HT 800MHZ FSB 1.5 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM 256MB RADEON 9600PRO 80GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA 10 GB SEAGATE

So Windows Me is bundled in with the restore CD meaning all the drivers are on that CD with Windows Me? If that is the case what I would suggest is for you to downlaod all the drivers for that pc off of the packard bell website save them and then make a new folder and name it drivers and put all of the exe drivers in that folder. Then go out abd buy a copy of Windows XP home or Pro and Fdisk the hard drive to make sure there wasn't a restorer partition on it and make a new partiton then install Windows XP.

Nevermind now mate, i managed to do a FULL clean install from the upgrade disk without any prompt, maybe because it detected that XP was installed b4 upgraded from ME) Intel P4 3.00GHZ HT 800MHZ FSB 1.5 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM 256MB RADEON 9600PRO 80GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA 10 GB SEAGATE