Gee, and all this time I thought WE were the pro's. Anyway, ASSUMING, spelled ASS-U-ME'ing, the files on the HD are NOT corrupt and no viruses or other garbage since we pro's all keep our computers in excellent shape, a $100.00 upgrade is just as good as a $400.00, or whatever, full version. Also, a full install from an upgrade version onto a new or re formatted hd is no problem as long as you have a copy of whatever the required version that your are upgrading from on hand. End of subject for me, and this is the last, final, non - technical pose I will reply to with an opinion. Just to darn many opinions out there and it goes on forever. ******************************************************************************************************************* Since 1972 Jim Myers Telrad Electronics Fort Wayne, Indiana Bil Green wrote: > All the pro's seem to agree that upgrading from Win98 or Me to > 2000 or XP is a very poor choice. The various errors and file > corruption will still be there. There is years of evidence to > back this up. > > How will the old version of Windows just go away? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/