after a hard drive crash. Of course, I no longer have the Windows 98 disc.
I'm stuck on a setup message asking me to verify that I "qualify to use this
product upgrade." I've been using this product upgrade for at least 5 years.


Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Check on ebay for a disk.
"DrDosido" <DrDosido@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> after a hard drive crash. Of course, I no longer have the Windows 98 disc.
> I'm stuck on a setup message asking me to verify that I "qualify to use
> this
> product upgrade." I've been using this product upgrade for at least 5
> years.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>

"DrDosido" wrote:

> after a hard drive crash. Of course, I no longer have the Windows 98 disc.
> I'm stuck on a setup message asking me to verify that I "qualify to use this
> product upgrade." I've been using this product upgrade for at least 5 years.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
Borrow a Win 95, 98, or ME disk from someone you know, purchase disk on
eBay, or purchase a full retail version of XP and sell your upgrade. If you
can borrow a disk from a friend, make a copy of it with ISO Recorder and keep
it with your XP Upgrade disk. Then get Acronis True Image and keep an image
of your system on an external hard drive so you can recover from the image
the next time your hard drive fails. You won't need the install disks at all.

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:40:02 -0700, DrDosido
<DrDosido@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> after a hard drive crash. Of course, I no longer have the Windows 98 disc.
> I'm stuck on a setup message asking me to verify that I "qualify to use this
> product upgrade." I've been using this product upgrade for at least 5 years.



You said that of course you no longer have the Windows 98 disk, but
let me point out that when you use an upgrade version, the version you
upgraded from becomes part of the license for the new version, and
can't legally be separately sold or given away. You should have kept
it for that reason and also because the possibility was always there
that one day you might need it again.

So now you don't have it and you need it. Buy another one. You should
be able to get it inexpensively someplace like eBay.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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