[ale] OT: winxp upgrade version from scratch?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Back in my sullied MS days, I know that there was no upgrade path
between the Win95 line and the WinNT line - I would expect they've since
softened that in the name of WinXP ubiquity but I'm sure they wouldn't
have collapsed the barriers completely.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:59, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, David S. Jackson wrote:
> 
> > I have a friend whose existing Win98 fe installation is pretty well and
> > truly hosed.  I recommended that he dump 98fe to something a little more
> > stable, and XP was all there was in the store.  His 98 installation is
> > so hosed that I don't think it would support an XP upgrade.  Can I just
> > reformat the partition and install XP to a fresh partition and let XP
> > ask me for an original 98 CD to prove he qualifies for the upgrade?
> > Will the upgrade version of XP even do that?  Or will it require that he
> > gets the "full version" of XP?
> >
> > I don't want to make things any worse for him than they are, so I'd
> > better know that info up front before I wipe the partition for him.  :-)
> >
> 
> AFAIK, it goes something like this...
> 
> XP Home is an ungrade for Win98/ME
> XP Pro is an upgrade for Win2K
> 
> I believe you'll find this to be the case.
> 
> 
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> Jonathan Rickman
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