xp upgrade...or full in disguise???

sixf00t4 · April 10th, 2003, 06:06 PM

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.

Bob The Great · April 10th, 2003, 06:11 PM

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

sixf00t4 · April 10th, 2003, 08:16 PM

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.

rpertusio · April 10th, 2003, 08:28 PM

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.

- rp

zidane182 · April 10th, 2003, 08:33 PM

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

sixf00t4 · April 10th, 2003, 08:40 PM

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$

rpertusio · April 10th, 2003, 08:42 PM

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...

iNeb · April 10th, 2003, 08:58 PM

Not bad, buy the upgrade instead of full

sixf00t4 · April 10th, 2003, 09:16 PM

if that is the case, it shouldnt be bootable...you know?

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

iNeb · April 10th, 2003, 09:28 PM

It didn't try again, works for me