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12-17-2003, 06:55 PM
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XP Home Question
I am building a new computer and I plan on getting XP home. Is this what I need http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...1&searchdepa=6
Or is that the upgrade, because there will be no previous OS on the HDD, so just wondering. |
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12-17-2003, 07:07 PM
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yes, that is what you want to get
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12-17-2003, 07:09 PM
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yup, that's what you need...just keep in mind that's an OEM version so all you will get is the CD. No fancy packaging; that would be a Retail version.
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12-17-2003, 07:28 PM
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Well I have experiance setting up XP so I dont think I need the setup info and crap. Thanks
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12-17-2003, 07:30 PM
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djbaseball2--- If you have an older version of windows (98-ME), with a valid license, you can just buy the upgrade CD and save a hundred bucks or so. A clean install can be doine with the upgrade. During the install XP will ask you to insert the old OS CD so it can verify the license.
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12-17-2003, 08:06 PM
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Stick with the full OEM version cause you will not save anything since upgrade versions only come full retail and cost right in the same neighborhood as that OEM full version you found there on newegg.. That way too you'll never have to be concerned about keeping your previous version of windows disk around....
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12-17-2003, 08:20 PM
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ktkendall-- I agree with you- I bought the full version myself, but he was only getting one possibility, and I thought he should be aware of both options. A lot of people still don't know you can do a clean install with the upgrade.
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12-18-2003, 12:01 PM
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Corky:
Your right and that is a good point that Microsoft really never highlights the fact that You can do it. I found out quite by accident in the win95>98 days trying to clean intall win98 upgrade disk on a 4G HD and couldn't figure out how I was going to get aroung the 2G limit of fat16 since my original win95 disk was the first versoin and would only do fat16.. Just for the heck of it I figured why not try to just run the 98 upgrade disk, and imagine my suprise when it asked me for the previous version windows disk, scanned it and told me to put the 98 back in and installed perfectly... |
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