Trying to get xp home to upgrade?

Even thou i have the full versions of ME and W98se, the only OS loaded in C:\> is windows 2000 pro.
I prepared a fat32 partition primary as D:\> and want to install my newly bought $99 XP Home version for D: BUT it doesn't like Win2000 and i'm not blowing another $100 bucks for the full ver...:-(

I tried to install from the CD (i386) folder using winnt.exe and from the 6 MS home floppies i downloaded....nothing, i get the same message. It can't find a valid windows "eula" or something like that SO everything i've tried so far is a no-go.....

Any ideas, i would think there must be a trick or some way to get around this crazy thing.

Thanks
Ossa

 

Windows 2000 is not a qualifying package for Windows XP Home upgrade. Upgrading from Previous Versions of Windows

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