Originally posted by tibboh
Just to stick my pennie's woth in about XP. My new copy of XP Home (upgrade only) arived on Friday. As explanied by a few guys, all I had to do was install XP CD, (on my new HD) which would then ask for verification that i had a previous copy of Windows, and I would get a clean, XP only installation.
Probem was when promted to insert floppie from previous Win, I stuck myWin '98 restore disk in - which it would NOT accept.
However, I had a Win '95 disk from 1996 and stuck that in, and lo & behold, full installation.
As someone quite rightly said to me when enquiring about buying full copy or upgrade, there is NO reason to waste money on full copy if you can lay your hands on an old Win '95/'98 start up disk.
Hope that helps clarify matters