Dual Windows set-up- XP-Pro and XP-Home

[Guest]

I have a version of XP-Home currently on my machine. I need Win XP Pro in order to utilize IIS. I have purchased a larger/faster hard drive for the machine. What I want to do is Install XP-Pro as the active partition and then install my existing XP-home edition on a second partition. Any conflicts with doing this? I have been informed there may be and do not understand why. I will also be installing a second hard drive at some point to add additional operating systems. Thanks for any help!

 

[Ken Simmons [MSFT]]

Hi Mike,

This should work OK. Just make sure that the two operating systems are
indeed installed to different drives.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications

I have a version of XP-Home currently on my machine. I need Win XP Pro in

order to utilize IIS. I have purchased a larger/faster hard drive for the
machine. What I want to do is Install XP-Pro as the active partition and
then install my existing XP-home edition on a second partition. Any
conflicts with doing this? I have been informed there may be and do not
understand why. I will also be installing a second hard drive at some point
to add additional operating systems. Thanks for any help!