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| FingerDemon wrote: | Species,
I believe Cobra is right. I think as long as you have one legal copy of some version of Windows on a CD, you should be good to go. Even if you don't have the version of Windows 98 that you had installed most recently, but you have another valid Windows CD from another machine, that should work.
I too am a stickler about the licenses, not because I'm so moral, but because I want to reserve the right to call Microsoft with questions if things go wrong. If you have a legal install now and you have a different legal CD to use during your XP install, I think you should be okay to use the CD. All they are trying to do is make sure you are upgrading, which you are, so it should be fine. Since you are doing a reformat of the HD, they can't rely on searching the HD for the previous install, so this is the only way they can check.
By the way, you say your 98 disk is hosed, but it might be good enough to get past the XP install screen that asks for a previous Windows disk. A CD that can't install Windows anymore might still have whatever verification data they are looking for. If you really can't use it, perhaps you can just find someone that already upgraded past 98 to loan you their disk for your install. I don't think that violates any User agreements or anything. They aren't using it anymore, so it is a valid available copy. I dunno, I'll have to ask my wife the lawyer. 
Of course that's whole can of worms right there. Everytime I ask her a question about software licenses, she assumes I have installed some Warez or something on her laptop. Or that I'm file sharing Metallica MP3's on her internet account. 
I had to go and marry the only lawyer in town who worries about "breaking" the law. 
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yeah i thought so that was the way it went.
besides, you say you have a backup, then what is the problem? it doesn't need to be bootable. make sure you have a bootdisk from 98 before you format. boot whit that one. insert yout xp disk and start installing. it's gonna ask you to insert a previous copy of windows to verify.
so your cd doesn't need to be bootable. 
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You can probably look this up in the XP instructions, but I thought you actually booted first with the XP disc and waited for it to ask you for the other Windows disk? Anyway, it can't be too hard to do, if I have been able to do it successfully twice already, Species.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:19 am Post subject: |
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It's a habbit. i have a upgrade of 98 SE which isn't bootable. so i use a bootdisk to install it.
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