A Bouquet for Microsoft

You couldn't just logon to your computer and use Keyfinder to tell you your registration number?

And your point is?????????

I can do all that but it's still going to ask for a previous version CD at the start of the install.

or Belarc?

Yay to you too.

Lemme get this straight. You paid $41.50 for an O/S (inclusive of postage) when you could have got one which works a damned sight better for free? Methinks you have paid too much :)

Don't blame your computer shop for ripping you off cos he got ripped off himself!! :)

And Now the part where I kick myself..........

I just did the reinstall today with my existing XP CD.......

Here are a few things that happened that I did not expect to happen

When the installation started I was given the option to either repair the existing setup or do a fresh installation. OK Here is where I thought it might want my old CD...

So I let it continue and it then asked which partition I wanted Windows to go on. I then said to use the existing drive. So it begins to reformat the drive and do a clean install and I never got asked at all to show it any previous version of Windows...

I'd love to know how it skipped that step. Not game to reproduce this just in case it does actually f*ck up and ask for the old windows disk as it's now stable and running.

The new CD they sent is indeed a full version including the dreaded SP2.....

It also has as part of the etched hologram "Not for retail. Not for OEM"

Quite true. One must wonder what the 'actual' price of such software would be without the huge markup?

It would be astronomical.

It amuses me sometimes that in spite of the constant complaints by Microsoft and others about the "huge rates of software pi racy and the

It only happens when the drive cant be read or there is no Windows to be found.

Thanks for that

So it read the old stuff off the drive before reformatting I take it??