Hi BC Members,
I have a Dell Dimension L600cx running ME that I would like to upgrade to XP. Right now, the machine runs very slowly and hangs frequently. There is nothing on the hard disk that I want to keep, so I want to wipe everything away and do a clean install. I have a genuine XP upgrade (from 95/98/ME) disk. I do not have the ME install disk or any kind of "restore" disks for this thing. ME was pre-installed on this machine (the COA sticker is on the enclosure).
I don't want to do something stupid like deleting everything and then have the upgrade procedure fail because it couldn't find a valid 95, 98 or ME already in there.
Besides throwing it all in the trash and buying new stuff (can't afford that now), how should I proceed?