Do I need to unistall xp home to do a fresh install of xp pro?

[Guest]

I want to do a fresh install of XP professional. Do I have to Unistall XP
Home First?

 

[Malke]

I want to do a fresh install of XP professional. Do I have to Unistall XP
Home First?

No. Here are installation instructions:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand


Malke

 

[Guest]

In general I prefer a fresh install. This is so that none of the "issues"
with the old install are carried over to the new install.

I've upgraded Home to Pro in the past (and used the FAST wizard) and have
some minor glitches that won't go away.

- John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I want to do a fresh install of XP professional. Do I have to
Unistall XP Home First?

There's really no such thing as an uninstallation of an operating system. To
uninstall it you just format the drive.

Assuming that you have a retail version of Windows XP Professional, just
boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to
accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the
existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp.htm

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

However, why do you not want to upgrade? Upgrades to Windows XP normally
work very well, and this specific upgrade--from Home to Professional--is the
easiest and most likely successful of all possible upgrades because so
little has to be changed.

One other point--are you sure you want to do this? Are you aware that XP
Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few
features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most
home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see
no benefits by upgrading.

For details go to

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp>

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional
allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five.