Hi again
Was looking through Microsoft's Support webpage and came across this -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930985/en-us - does this apply to the
upgrade version? Cos this would be a big departure from before if you can't
clean-install using an upgrade disc.
Thanks again.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, that is correct.
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
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> "Test Man" wrote:
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> Yeah, just been searching in this newsgroup and pretty much confirmed your
> post.
>
> So basically you can only upgrade in-place (as in from the desktop) of
> Windows XP. You can clean-install with 2000 or XP already on the machine
> with an upgrade disc. However, if it doesn't find an existing
> installation
> of Windows 2000 or XP (however you try and install it) it won't continue.
>
> Is that correct?
>
>