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Pinner73   12-16-2006 at 05:40:29 AM

My cousin asked if I could reformat his comp due to virus issues, he currently has the XP Home upgrade installed. Since I do not have acopy of 98 on hand, could I use my full copy of XP Home to get the OS running with the serial off his upgrade disk. Thanks

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pscowboy   12-16-2006 at 08:14:03 AM
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Find someone who has W95, or any flavor of 98, to enable a fresh install of the "Upgrade" version.

Failing that, why don't you just try your idea and see how it goes. But I have a strong feeling that the different flavors of XP cannot mix and match keys.

Another note: If your cousin's comp got nailed with a boot sector partition virus, formatting won't fix it. A DeBug routine would have to be performed. If the re-install seems to be troublefree, all well and good!

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