I can't help you thwart the upgrade checks. This is not something that you can negotiate since it's the forum policies.
Cheers,
Bob
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I have an IBM laptop A20p. It came with Windows 98 preinstalled and the shop I bought it from installed a Windows 2000 upgrade for me before delivery.
Recently I had a crash and had to reinstall everything. I got as far as installing Windows 98, I have the UPGRADE disks for Windows 2000 and I can't install them because I get the message:
Setup cannot continue because upgrade functionality is disabled and your copy of Windows 2000 only allows upgrade.
Can I ENABLE UPGRADE FUNCTIONALITY ?
And if so, HOW ??
This is driving me crazy. (It's a long story but I will think very, very, very carefully before EVER buying a machine with Windows Preinstalled AGAIN !! In fact, I think I'll just switch to Mac !)
Meanwhile I would really like to get Windows 2000 up and running.
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I had the exact same problem while trying to upgrade Windows in my IBM Thinkpad 390E from Windows 98 to XP Home.
Although Microsoft asks users not to create illegal copies of the operating system, it is allowed, after purchasing Windows to make a back-up copy of the disk. The problem with trying to install the Windows XP Home edition lies with the auto-run program on the original disk. To fix this, simply make a copy of the original Windows XP Home Upgrade CD as a data-disk, and then double click the "install" icon found in the copy you just made.
This also works with other upgrade versions of Windows, although you may need to copy the separate folders from the original disk onto more than one data CD, in which you will need to copy the files from your copies into a saved folder in the computer you are upgrading.