Hi,
I have just recently swapped out my sisters hardisk for a new one as she was getting stop errors (0x0000007A) and (kernel_data_inpage) erorors....
Ok so now I have the new hardrive installed and I'm tryig to load Win XP .....only its an upgrade disk, so the message I get after the (press F8) agreement screen is:
"Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows installed on your computer. To continue, setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this upgrade product.
Please insert one of the following Windows product CDs into the CD rom drive: Windows XP home edition (full version), Windows Xp Pro (full version), Windos 200 Pro, Windows Millenium, Windows 98 etc blah, blah, blah.
- When the CD is in the drive, press enter.
- To quit setup, press F3."
Fine, so I get my sisters old Windows Millenium disk out which is an OEM disk that came with her machine, and put that in and press enter .............. but to no effect, some message appears saying that it does not recognise the disk!?! ......
....so just to test, I put MY OEM version of Win XP (full) in the drive and it takes it without a hitch, obviously I cant use that disk because it's tied to my own machine, so can only get as far as the serial input screen....... but at least i know its takes it.
If it takes my OEM disk of XP, why doesn't it recognise / take the OEM disk of Millenium as proof of previous Operating sytem ????
Am I just going to have to buy a full OEM version of XP (£60.23 inc vat) like mine?? ...or what??
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/114048...roduct_reviews
...the machine is a bit old so will not take Vista ... my Sister will be getting a new machine soon anyway, but just wants to get the current one back up and working again for now, with XP.
It also wouldn't take the millenium disk on its own either so that I could afterwards just use the upgrade XP disk, but anyway i've formatted the disk to NTFS now using my OEM XP disk.
...any help on forcing it to take the Millenium disk as proof, so I can just use the blasted Xp upgrade disk to carry on the installation would be great. Never had this problem till made this hd upgrade, thought this issue only happens when you change MB or CPU.![]()
Probably will need to grab that OEM XP disk off ebuyer, but I just need to know for sure.
Many thanks for any help.![]()


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