Upgrating from XP Home to XP Professional

[dorin]

I've just bought a Sony Desktop. It comes with XP Home
Edition. When I tried to install the XP Professional
Edition, the computer just crashed. Sony people told me
that I cannot install the full XP Professional Edition
over the XP Home Edition and that I have to buy an upgrate
from Home to Professional. It does not make any sense to
me? Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

If you acquired an "OEM version" of XP Pro, then you cannot
upgrade over XP Home. Only "retail versions" of XP Pro have
the upgrade capability. OEM versions can only be installed
on a freshly reformatted drive or partition.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I've just bought a Sony Desktop. It comes with XP Home
| Edition. When I tried to install the XP Professional
| Edition, the computer just crashed. Sony people told me
| that I cannot install the full XP Professional Edition
| over the XP Home Edition and that I have to buy an upgrate
| from Home to Professional. It does not make any sense to
| me? Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I've just bought a Sony Desktop. It comes with XP Home
Edition. When I tried to install the XP Professional
Edition, the computer just crashed. Sony people told me
that I cannot install the full XP Professional Edition
over the XP Home Edition and that I have to buy an upgrate
from Home to Professional.

If you have a *retail* copy of XP Pro, you can run it *from the
existing Home system* and take Install, continuing with Upgrade. Though
this will have cost more than a retail upgrade one would have.

If you got one of the OEM XP Pro CDs, sold with a notional bit of
hardware, that will not do an upgrade at all.