Hi John,

>Jim
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>I know the feeling! My Dell 8100 came with XP Home, it now has 2000pro.
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>Something is wrong that we are forced to buy copies of Home OS when we already own licenses for OS we actually want to use.

It took me about 10 minutes of futzing around before I booted to the Win2K CD and blew away the partition :-) And you are right - I could not buy these WITHOUT an OS installed. And since the OEM's cannot sell anything but XP ...

I wonder when licenses for Win2K will dry up?