xp repair

[Guest]

I have xp home on this laptop and on my other laptop i have xp pro. I can not
find my home cd and i need to do a xp repair on my xp home laptop, can i use
my xp pro cd to do a repair on my xp home laptop?

 

[John John]

I have xp home on this laptop and on my other laptop i have xp pro. I can not
find my home cd and i need to do a xp repair on my xp home laptop, can i use
my xp pro cd to do a repair on my xp home laptop?

No.

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have xp home on this laptop and on my other laptop i have xp pro. I can not
find my home cd and i need to do a xp repair on my xp home laptop, can i use
my xp pro cd to do a repair on my xp home laptop?

No,

 

[Guest]

I have xp home on this laptop and on my other laptop i have xp pro. I can not
find my home cd and i need to do a xp repair on my xp home laptop, can i use
my xp pro cd to do a repair on my xp home laptop?

NO, but some laptops comes with a Recovery Installed partition installed on
them, usually FAT32 Format, and also tell on Boot up Press F11 or so to start
recover your machine to factory settings.
Note if you have this feature Backup your Data if you can access your Laptop
before doing so.
Contact your Laptop Vendor they may will provide you with a recovery CD,
which you will pay for unless your Laptop under Warranty?.
HTH.
nass

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have xp home on this laptop and on my other laptop i have xp pro. I can
not
find my home cd and i need to do a xp repair on my xp home laptop, can i
use
my xp pro cd to do a repair on my xp home laptop?

No. This will not work, unless you're just trying to use the Recovery
Console. For that purpose, yes, you can use either CD.

Otherwise, this is a Very Bad Idea.

If you attempt a repair install, you will instead do an upgrade; however,
your install key won't be valid, and you will be in a situation where you
cannot roll back the failed installation and cannot go forward. And at
that point, you'll have to wipe the disk and start over.

Find the correct disk, and use that.

HTH
-pk