Ok everyone, I'm getting a little tee'd off because l keep getting all these niggly little (and sometimes serious) problems, keep posting questions everywhere on the forums, and waiting for replies. Please don't get me WRONG, l get all the right answers but am thinking can l be doing with all this hassle. From ye olde memory bank, my system used to be Windows 98, and l upgraded to Windows XP Home using their UPGRADE disk only.
A year ago l had one hel* of a problem, took the guys my upgrade disk and they somehow restored my system but took deep breaths in saying that this was only an upgrade disk, and it sure did cost me a small fortune!
(I had no programs to save before they restored as these were all on an external disk and could be recovered). The SITUATION is still the same.
I am finally changing from a dial up modem to adsl within the next week or so (yep, l LIVE so remote it's unbelievable, but they've finally upgraded the LINE so am looking forward to it).
I thought maybe a clean slate. Start from basics, reload all MS updates, to that of SP3 and IE8, and then l won't have to bother you with stupid questions on SOLVING problems on the fly?
So, how do l go about a complete restore with just this (genuine) Update disk?
Gosh, l hate to do this as it may be called bumping the thread which is never my intention.
"From ye olde memory bank, my system used to be Windows 98, and l upgraded to Windows XP Home using their UPGRADE disk only".
So l suppose all l want to know is can l rebulid a working system from an Upgrade disk or do l have to go back to Windows 98 and start again.
Sorry to be a pain/dummy
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how do l go about a complete restore with just this (genuine) Update disk?