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04-03-2009, 08:39 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South of you Posts: 333
|  Windows XP stupidity
Ok so I order about 3 years back a copy of WinXP from Newegg. I never got around to using it until today when my parts come in and I put my build together. So everything fit like a glove, 30 min down the road the computer fired up on first try and everything operating at ideal temps, no DOA's, nothing. I insert my OS and it starts loading and I accept the TOS and away it goes, then it stops. It says I needed a previous Windows installment.
So with that being said I look down and I had bought an "Upgrade" windows XP. So is there anyway around this or am I going to have a lighter wallet? | 
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04-03-2009, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 6,072
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No there's nothing you can do. You'll have to install a previous legit version of Windows to upgrade to if you have one laying around, if you don't wanna have to buy a OEM or Retail version.
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04-03-2009, 09:10 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South of you Posts: 333
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Well the only full version I have is like 95. My old PC has XP on it, but no discs or anything.
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04-03-2009, 09:14 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 2,445
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04-06-2009, 11:43 AM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 588
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I can't believe you had it lying around for 3 years without ever using it.  Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvin.C  | The only way to do that legally is to have an older version disc handy and insert it during the install process so the installation can tell that you are eligible. If you find a way to bypass that, it's illegal. | |
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04-07-2009, 01:34 PM
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Repeat Offender Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Union City, TN Posts: 1,929
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I think you can legally download Win98 now and install it. Then do the upgrade.
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04-08-2009, 02:30 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 588
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Originally Posted by superdave1984 I think you can legally download Win98 now and install it. Then do the upgrade. | I know they haven't sold it for a long time, but I can't find any evidence that it's legal to download 98. Even if you did, you'd have to have a license for it, wouldn't you? | |
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04-08-2009, 03:01 PM
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Banned Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Guantanomo Bay, Cuba Posts: 546
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Well the only full version I have is like 95. My old PC has XP on it, but no discs or anything.
| You can use Norton Ghost (or something similar, I think there are Open Source imaging apps) to copy your old PC and then just dump it on the new one.
I've used Ghost at both of my most recent IT jobs and it's brilliant - you only have to do a typical XP install once and then you "Ghost" your ready machine - in fact I named our corporate ghost image with all our software pre-installed as "HotNReady", you just drop the image on a machine which only takes like 5 minutes and then you join it to the domain, and you've got a new machine ready to go in 10 minutes flat (that includes the dozen applications we use) | |
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04-08-2009, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,730
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Ghosting does not make it legal. In fact that is still very much illegal. Because it is still the same license that was in use on the other PC. Which by definition of the TOS and EULA of Windows makes it illegal.
If you are using Corporate Serials that is a different story, but for home users that is very much illegal cause the serials are not to be transfered in that way.
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04-08-2009, 06:09 PM
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Hard Core Techie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 11,643
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Originally Posted by forrestcupp I know they haven't sold it for a long time, but I can't find any evidence that it's legal to download 98. Even if you did, you'd have to have a license for it, wouldn't you? | it technically wasn't illegal to use a copy of win 98 on any machine until Ms realize how much money they lost by doing so which was like 2-3 years later. even then they didn't do anything about it.
they just made xp so you had to have to activate it.
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