Cannot upgrade to Professional from Home

[John Clifford Hole]

I bought the following item

Windows XP Pro Upgrade

When I put the CD into my brand new computer - running MS Windows XP Home
Edition - and click on Install Windows XP instead of geting an option to
upgrade it to Professional I get this message 'Setup cannot continue because
the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the
CD'.

Any ideas of what is going on ?

John Hole

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I bought the following item

Windows XP Pro Upgrade

When I put the CD into my brand new computer - running MS Windows XP
Home Edition - and click on Install Windows XP instead of geting an
option to upgrade it to Professional I get this message 'Setup
cannot
continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer
than the version on the CD'.

Any ideas of what is going on ?

John Hole

Do you have Service Pack 2 installed? If so, it's file versions
_are_ newer than the files on the WinXP Pro Upgrade CD. You'll need
to uninstall the SP to perform the upgrade.

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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

If you already installed SP2 in XP Home Edition:

Unless SP2 is integrated into XP Pro, then one cannot
upgrade an existing XP Home w/SP2 installation using
a non-SP2 version of XP Pro. What you need to do is
create a SP2 "slipstreamed" version of XP Pro, then use
the new CD to upgrade over XP Home w/SP2.

You have two options:

1. Uninstall SP2 from XP Home, then upgrade to XP Pro.

or

2. Create a SP2 slipstreamed version of XP Pro (preferred)
and use the new XP Pro w/SP2 to upgrade.

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming
(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:

Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

Information on AutoStreamer 1.0
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337&st=0&#entry245

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

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| I bought the following item
|
| Windows XP Pro Upgrade
|
| When I put the CD into my brand new computer - running MS Windows XP Home
| Edition - and click on Install Windows XP instead of geting an option to
| upgrade it to Professional I get this message 'Setup cannot continue because
| the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the
| CD'.
|
| Any ideas of what is going on ?
|
| John Hole

 

[Guest]

Have you installed SP2?
this would be a newer system than the XPpro upgrade(SP1a more than likely)
you would have to uninstall SP2 & try again.

regards,

Jay C.

 

[Guest]

I followed the instructions in both nLite and AutoStreamer but I can't boot
from the CD. Is there another step I perhaps missed?

 

[Bill James]

Have you enabled boot from CD in the BIOS? If so, watch for the prompt "press and key to boot from cd" during the boot up process.

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[Andre Da Costa]

Follow instructions on this site:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

Andre

 

[Malke]

I followed the instructions in both nLite and AutoStreamer but I can't
boot from the CD. Is there another step I perhaps missed?

Are you using a retail copy of XP? I haven't used AutoStreamer, but
nLite worked perfectly for me slipstreaming SP2 into both Home and Pro.

Malke

 

[Malke]

I followed the instructions in both nLite and AutoStreamer but I can't
boot from the CD. Is there another step I perhaps missed?

Sorry to post twice, but another thought: you *are* burning the image
file with third-party software, right? You can't use XP's built-in
burning capabilities for this.

Malke

 

[Bill James]

Good point, Malke. The OP can check this by using Windows Explorer to look at the CD from within Windows. If there is just one big file with the .iso extension, then the CD was not created correctly. Other than that, my guess is BIOS boot settings still.

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[Guest]

Thanks guys.
My error was in not burning the image to CD, but simply burning the 'data'

 

[Alex Nichol]

I followed the instructions in both nLite and AutoStreamer but I can't boot
from the CD. Is there another step I perhaps missed?

Having made the ISO file, how did you burn it to CD? It is not a file
that you make part of a CD (eg with the inbuilt XP burning, or making a
CD - ISO in Nero). It is a complete image of the CD, file system and al
and must be handled accordingly. With Nero the Recorder menu, Burn
Image (odd place). Easy CD Creator version 6 - File - Disk from Image.

If you do not have one of these packages, get isorecorder from
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
Note that there is a beta version at the top for running under XP SP2;
an older one, download at the bottom for running from pre-SP2