Upgrading from XP Home Ed. to XP Pro

Currently I am running XP Home edition on my Dell 8250 2.8
Ghz machine. What can I expect in trying to upgrade to XP
Pro? Dell has been less than helpful on revealing what to
do so I thought it better to just go to the folks who
invented XP Home and XP Pro. Any advice or other sites
within Microsoft that I can check out?

The systems are the same except XP Pro has more security
features, being geared to a small/large office with domains,
multi-user logons, more controls for the IT department.

Dell would have sold you the computer with XP Pro installed
and then they would have offered support. But when you
install ANY software, whether an upgraded OS or some third
party calendar function, such as the Palm Desktop, they
don't make any money.


http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;316941


http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...B;EN-US;Q315341

http://www.aumha.org/

http://blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm


"Boogerbear" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0c9301c3aad7$b496fb30$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| Currently I am running XP Home edition on my Dell 8250 2.8
| Ghz machine. What can I expect in trying to upgrade to XP
| Pro? Dell has been less than helpful on revealing what to
| do so I thought it better to just go to the folks who
| invented XP Home and XP Pro. Any advice or other sites
| within Microsoft that I can check out?

Hello

Keep this in mind that when you upgrade Dell will no longer
provide support to you because you have change the OS and
you will have a hard time gettign them to support you. I would
recommend that you backup your important and doa clean install
also another issue would be to go to Dell's wedsite and download
all your drivers for your pc before doin the upgrade ok

I would down all driver like video, audio, network card and burn
those drivers to a cdrom and then do the install of XP Pro if you
choose too.


Alvin


Boogerbear wrote:

> Currently I am running XP Home edition on my Dell 8250 2.8
> Ghz machine. What can I expect in trying to upgrade to XP
> Pro? Dell has been less than helpful on revealing what to
> do so I thought it better to just go to the folks who
> invented XP Home and XP Pro. Any advice or other sites
> within Microsoft that I can check out?

Hi,

It's simple. Just buy a XP Pro CD, boot from it and
perform a inplace upgrade of XP Pro.

1. Boot into BIOS and change the boot sequence to CD-rom
be the 1st boot device. You can skip this step if your CD-
rom has already been set to 1st boot.
2. Insert the XP Pro CD into the CD-rom and press
Ctrl+Alt+Del keys to restart the computer.
3. After the computer finishing POST, watch the bottom
line of the display, when prompted to "press any key to
boot from the CD" appeared, press the space bar
immediately to let it boot from the CD. If you missed the
chance to boot from the CD, restart the computer and try
again.
4. The setup screen appeared then press the "Enter" key
to enter setup.
5. Press the F8 key to accept the licence agreement.
6. When prompted to press the F6 key to install 3rd
party/raid drivers, don't press the key unless you need
to install those drivers.
7. DO NOT select delete existing OS otherwise all the
data files in C drive would be wiped out. Press the "R"
key to select repair install of XP.
8. Follow the prompt to complete the installation.
9. After XP Pro loaded successfully, all the data files
and applications should be safe. Update the windows
patches from windows update site.

However, it is the best practice to backup all the data
files before changing the OS.

Hope it helps.

Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>Currently I am running XP Home edition on my Dell 8250
2.8
>Ghz machine. What can I expect in trying to upgrade to
XP
>Pro? Dell has been less than helpful on revealing what
to
>do so I thought it better to just go to the folks who
>invented XP Home and XP Pro. Any advice or other sites
>within Microsoft that I can check out?
>.
>