To use the Express Upgrade, boot into Windows, insert your Windows Express
Upgrade DVD and follow the instructions on screen for upgrading. There
should not be a need to a clean install if your running Windows XP x86.
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"Dell Boy" <Dell Boy@xxxxxxam> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm intending to do a clean install of Windows Home Premium from an
> Express
> Upgrade disk and wondered if anyone has done this before and can give me
> some
> tips.
>
> I've researched on the web and it looks as if when carrying out a clean
> install from an upgrade disc you have to install the upgrade then upgrade
> the
> upgrade. I therefore intend to do the following:
>
> 1. Boot to the upgrade disc, reformat C: and load the upgrade.
> 2. Install the chipset.
> 3. Put the upgrade disc in and upgrade the upgrade.
> 4. Load chipset, drivers, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>