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Thread ID: 35517	2003-07-15 01:25:00	full or upgrade, how to tell	holden (2488)	Press F1

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159784	2003-07-15 01:25:00	got dad,s old computer and going to reformat it for mum to use. have a back up disk which is all leagl but the old boys fergot whether its a full version or an upgrade is there any way of checking, as i don,t want to start to reformat an find it,s a upgrade on start of disk it says W95-FULL-AR(E) any thoughts	holden (2488)
159785	2003-07-15 02:07:00	> on start of disk it says W95-FULL-AR(E) > any thoughts It should say on the disk it self I am guessing here but to what you posted above I think it is a "Full version " but might be wrong here.	stu140103 (137)
159786	2003-07-15 03:47:00	Load it up and have a go. At the worst, it will want a win3.1 installation to upgrade from. If so, make a \WNDOWS directory, and copy "a file" (any file) to it as WIN.COM. Then try again. :D	Graham L (2)
159787	2003-07-15 09:27:00	> \WNDOWS directory, and copy "a file" (any file) to it > as WIN.COM. Then try again. :D ROFL I always wondered if that would work, but never got round to trying :) I wonder if it works with later upgrades? ;) Mike.	Mike (15)
159788	2003-07-16 03:03:00	Works for W95. The inverse one if you have an OEM W95B, which doesn't want to "upgrade" W95A, is to delete or rename the WIN.COM file, or just use the setup in the W95 directory, rather than the one in the top-level of the CD. (It has to be able tio reinstall inseklf :D). A similar one which annoyed me was a DOS6.22 "Full" version which didn't want to install on a disk which had DOS on it. That was easily fixed --- I just ^C- d out of the AUTOEXEC.BAT, which was starting the setup and installed by hand. I don't know about the later Windows ... I'm not likely to buy any of them :D	Graham L (2)
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