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If you purchase the upgrade, you will save a little money. If you ever
have to reload, later, you will have to load the origional OS and then
upgrade it.

Re: "If you purchase the upgrade, you will save a little money. If you
ever have to reload, later, you will have to load the origional OS and
then upgrade it."

That is not correct.

An upgrade version can do a full install on a totally blank hard drive,
DO NOT install an old version first if you want a clean install.

What will happen is that, because it's an "upgrade version", it will
want to see the CD from the "older" version being "upgraded", and you
will have to insert the CD for the "old" version into the CD-ROM drive
at one point for a "compliance check". But this is strictly a licensing
issue, no actual files are used from the older version, an "upgrade
version" is a complete version of the operating system.


David Hough wrote:

>
>
> If you purchase the upgrade, you will save a little money. If you ever
> have to reload, later, you will have to load the origional OS and then
> upgrade it.
>

Well, if you can accept me verifying my own post, I just did it Saturday
night with a brand new Maxtor hard drive.


wrote:

> Can somone verify this comment as I was not aware of the fact that you
> could use an upgrade CD on a blank HD.
>
> Gary
>
>
>>An upgrade version can do a full install on a totally blank hard drive,
>>DO NOT install an old version first if you want a clean install.
>>
>>What will happen is that, because it's an "upgrade version", it will
>>want to see the CD from the "older" version being "upgraded", and you
>>will have to insert the CD for the "old" version into the CD-ROM drive
>>at one point for a "compliance check". But this is strictly a licensing
>>issue, no actual files are used from the older version, an "upgrade
>>version" is a complete version of the operating system.
>>
>>
>>David Hough wrote:
>
>
>

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:01:08 GMT, wrote:

>Can somone verify this comment as I was not aware of the fact that you
>could use an upgrade CD on a blank HD.

Yes.

I stand corrected

Yes you can. I have been doing it since 98


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> Can somone verify this comment as I was not aware of the fact that you
> could use an upgrade CD on a blank HD.
>
> Gary
>
> >
> >An upgrade version can do a full install on a totally blank hard drive,
> >DO NOT install an old version first if you want a clean install.
> >
> >What will happen is that, because it's an "upgrade version", it will
> >want to see the CD from the "older" version being "upgraded", and you
> >will have to insert the CD for the "old" version into the CD-ROM drive
> >at one point for a "compliance check". But this is strictly a licensing
> >issue, no actual files are used from the older version, an "upgrade
> >version" is a complete version of the operating system.
> >
> >
> >David Hough wrote:
>
>