Ken Ibold
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A friend who owns a business gave me a surplus laptop that is running Windows 2000. I would like to upgrade it to XP. When I put in the XP disk, the laptop does not recognize it.
Could this be because I am not logged in as an administrator for the laptop? If that's the case, is there a way to blow out the old operating system such that it allows an XP install? I do not need any of the data on the hard drive, and I have copies of all of the applications currently installed on it.
This is on a Dell Latitude c610. I already have 5 working computers in the house, but I was thinking about leaving this at the vacation house if I can make it work. Worst case I will leave it on Windows 2000, but if I can get rid of that operating system I would like to.
Edit: Well, as it turns out the computer will not recognize the CD drive no matter what's in there. I guess there's a reason this was declared "surplus."
Could this be because I am not logged in as an administrator for the laptop? If that's the case, is there a way to blow out the old operating system such that it allows an XP install? I do not need any of the data on the hard drive, and I have copies of all of the applications currently installed on it.
This is on a Dell Latitude c610. I already have 5 working computers in the house, but I was thinking about leaving this at the vacation house if I can make it work. Worst case I will leave it on Windows 2000, but if I can get rid of that operating system I would like to.
Edit: Well, as it turns out the computer will not recognize the CD drive no matter what's in there. I guess there's a reason this was declared "surplus."
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