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| 37259 | 2002-02-27 04:03:00 | I have bought a windows ME machine. It was not stable so I have upgraded to XP prof. (tons more stable) The manufacturer of my PC provided a boot disk that did a custom install of ME it was not a Microsoft ME disk. This is a real pain at upgrade time as the install went wrong & I had to reinstall ME the restart the XL upgrade. Is this practice common? legal? |
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| 37260 | 2002-02-27 04:28:00 | Where abouts did you buy your new system from. It is common practice for a computer to only come with a recovery disc, it is meant to stop piracy somehow. I would just *borrow* someone elses full ME or 98SE disc and use that to do a clean install of XP. Good luck, JM |
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| 37261 | 2002-02-27 17:07:00 | I think you may be in trouble.As I understand it these manufacturers disks do not qualify as an upgrade. You have to have the full Microsoft disk. Just one of the reasons I advise people to refuse to buy a computer that does not come with the full retail disk. Jack. |
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| 37262 | 2002-02-28 00:56:00 | How right you are Jack.... I have been having a raging argument with Symantec, as the say the NAV I got with my new Packard Bell was a free program, and I have to pay $56 to upgrade my live updates subscription. If I ever buy a computer again, I will insist on the full copies of software before I hand my money over Regards, ALAN :-) |
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