XP Home upgrade, upgrade path

point decay · 24 Feb 2008 at 23:36

Guys

A question on upgrade path's for XP home upgrade. I have XP home upgrade disk which im about to install in a new build for a family member, im going to be using a win 98 disk as the validating criteria, my question is (and bare in mind my first install of this was over six years ago) if the original install was from and OEM 98 will this mean that the XP licence cant be transfered?, I have a pretty good idea on how licence transfer and upgrade work now ie vista, but cant remeber if its the same for XP, the whole reason for the question is that i cant honestly remeber which disk i upgraded from whether it was an OEM or a retail 98 (I had both at the time).

Any idea?

Caged · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:12

If the 98 license was OEM then XP and Vista will have to be installed on the same PC as Windows 98 was. If the 98 license was retail then you won't have this restriction.

mattyrigby00 · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:17

just fire up the XP install and when it asks for previous windows media put the 98 disk in and itll go through, doesnt need a code or anything.

point decay · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:27

mattyrigby00 said:
just fire up the XP install and when it asks for previous windows media put the 98 disk in and itll go through, doesnt need a code or anything.

isnt it limited by the media used when first installed 6 yr ago?

Caged · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:32

It's not a technical limitation, but it makes the difference between complying with the EULA and not complying (I won't use the illegal/legal term because violating an EULA doesn't go against any laws).

point decay · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:41

Caged said:
It's not a technical limitation, but it makes the difference between complying with the EULA and not complying (I won't use the illegal/legal term because violating an EULA doesn't go against any laws).

ok, so how do i know?, is there any way for me to find out which disk i used?, I genuinely have no idea, I apreciate what your saying but my intention is not to break or bend any EULA's but merely to install this disk.

Caged · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:49

No way at all that I know of. You need to find the/a 98 disc as well because otherwise technically you can't use XP either.

Butters · 25 Feb 2008 at 00:50

Also, there is really no such thing as an upgrade disc. Its a limited full retail disc. You just need to make a small change to the setup.ini and you can full install without previous OS media.

Burnsy2023 · 25 Feb 2008 at 13:03

Baked said:
ok, so how do i know?, is there any way for me to find out which disk i used?, I genuinely have no idea, I apreciate what your saying but my intention is not to break or bend any EULA's but merely to install this disk.

There's no way of finding out (from what I know) without the Windows 98 media, at least after an upgrade.

Burnsy