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Old April 10th, 2003, 06:06 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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xp upgrade...or full in disguise???

ok so had to reformat a pc at work. found out that the office only bought xp upgrades. so i looked for the original 2k disk that came with the pc. no where to be found. so i figured...lets just try the upgrade. so i booted from the cdrom and formatted the pc and install xp.

it worked...

my question is...how can this be???? why would anyone ever buy the full version? or is something going to happen? i dont see any limitations.
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Old April 10th, 2003, 06:11 PM     #2 (permalink)
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I don't think your supposed to, but you can. heres a chart that lists what your supposed to be able to upgrade from. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ing/matrix.asp
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i dont really understand what you mean with that chart. i mean i installed windows and everything works fine and i ONLY used the upgrade.
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Old April 10th, 2003, 08:28 PM     #4 (permalink)
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strange you mention that, sixf00t4...
I've noticed the same thing with the WinXP Pro "upgrade" where I am.
Ours is a 'corporate edition', but still named an "upgrade". Maybe the corp never asks for a valid CD like the normal version does.
I thought maybe it incorrectly had the 'upgrade' label.

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my friend and i used upgrade disk to install xp on our neighbors computer. We were confused that we could boot from the upgrade disk and we had the option to install.. =P
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so this is something that shouldn't be happenning we agree right??

this is an xp pro upgrade....maybe our idea of "upgrade" is wrong. like M$ is giving us the benefit of the doubt that we already paid for a previous version's key and they are like giving us a discount???? find that hard to swallow though, considering it is m$

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From what I understand, it should be prompting for a valid CD (such as your Win2k CD) before continuing.

Maybe if you use the GUI installation (boot into Win2k, and start the WinXP setup from within Win2k) it will prompt for a CD...
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Not bad, buy the upgrade instead of full
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if that is the case, it shouldnt be bootable...you know?

ineb: i clicked on your link and nothing happens????

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It didn't try again, works for me
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