Win98 Upgrade

[G_Man60]

This is an obscure question....... If I format my hard drive and insert a Win98 upgrade CD, it will go through the process until it gets to Upgrade Compliance. It then asks for a Win95 cd for verification and then it proceeds with the rest of the install. My question is: what specific file is it looking for on the older OS cd? Or is it checking serial numbers??

[BipolarBill]

I do believe that it's SETUP.EXE.

[ukulele]

A friend bought a copy of WinME upgrade for use with a new drive and was asked for a previous version of windows when he tried to install ME. He no longer had his origional Win95 disk. I gave him an old Win95 disk which I had no serial number for and it worked fine. I can't say what file ME was looking for but he was upgradeing so it was legal reguardless of what previous version was used. As far as I am concerned the best way to install an upgrade is a fresh install anyway.

[Psycho Logical]

Originally posted by ukulele
...but he was upgradeing so it was legal reguardless of what previous version was used.
It's not what previous version was used, it's whose. What you did may be "OK" as far as you are concerned, but don't presume for a moment to call it legal. No company sells an upgrade to be used on as many previous versions as possible, regardless who actually paid for it.