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XP upgrade
Name: rayray705 Date: December 12, 2003 at 18:57:16 Pacific OS: Me CPU/Ram: PenIII/512mb
Comment:
I am trying to upgrade to xp from me with an upgrade disk. I formatted the HD(still fat32) and tried to boot from the cd and it gives the following message: Press any key to boot from cd... invalid system disk insert the right disk to continue
Name: Chuck Date: December 12, 2003 at 19:01:35 Pacific
Reply:
An Upgrade disk requires that an operating system is already on computer. After the format, did you reinstall ME ?? Then install XP.
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Response Number 2
Name: Stuart Date: December 12, 2003 at 20:14:54 Pacific
Reply:
An genuine Microsft Windows XP upgrade disk does not require an operating system to be present. All it requires is that you have a CD with an earlier version of Windows to verify your entitlement to the upgrade. You will be prmpted to insert that disk during the install process.
An upgrade CD disk should also boot. If you disk will not boot either there is something wrong with it, or it is a pirate copy and the boot loader hasn't been copied correctly.
Take it back where you got it from and tell them it does not work.
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