Second Edition full or upgrade? Can you tell from the disks?

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The copy that is an Upgrade will say so on the disk. Each installer,
Upgrade or Full, has it's own Product Key (COA #). The only way to
easily tell if the COA/Product Key you have is for the disk you have is
to test. Make a test partition, run the CD Setup and see what happens.
You can quit Setup as soon as you get to the panel that prompts you to
create a startup floppy disk. Then delete the test partition.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Jefferis NoSpamme" <jefferisp7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a couple of questions. I had a computer, now dead, that came
with WIN
> 98 and I bought at one point a WIN 98 Second Edition upgrade and I got
a
> second full install Second Edition for another computer, no longer
running
> WIN 98.
>
> I donated one system to my wife's school but I can't tell from the
disks if
> the copy I have left is a full install or an upgrade. If it is an
upgrade,
> does it say so on the disk? This one only says, 2nd Edition.
>
> Also, will the Second Edition upgrade require a separate
Authentication
> number or use the original number from the WIN 98 regular install? I
have a
> manual with the authentication code which I think is for the second
edition
> full install I bought, but now I'm not sure.
>
> I want to sell the unused 2nd edition full install and manual.
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jefferis Peterson, Pres.
> Web Design and Marketing
> http://www.PetersonSales.com
>
>

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Congratulations, <s>.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Jefferis NoSpamme" <jefferisp7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, it is a full install
>
>
>
> On 2/23/05 11:09 PM, in article #vgMTaiGFHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
"Gary
> S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote:
>
> > The copy that is an Upgrade will say so on the disk. Each installer,
> > Upgrade or Full, has it's own Product Key (COA #). The only way to
> > easily tell if the COA/Product Key you have is for the disk you have
is
> > to test. Make a test partition, run the CD Setup and see what
happens.
> > You can quit Setup as soon as you get to the panel that prompts you
to
> > create a startup floppy disk. Then delete the test partition.
> >
> > --
> > Gary S. Terhune
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jefferis Peterson, Pres.
> Web Design and Marketing
> http://www.PetersonSales.com
>
>