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I bought my computer with xp pro, and not using a computer at all prev, I screwed it up repeatedly. I lost the operating system and didnot know how to get it back. I was not given any of the software that came with it.Did not know software came with it. anyway I went out and bought xp home, installed it on 20g , and then got xp pro and installed it on 20g on the same hd. I was tring to download sp1 and the computer shut down . then I found out that the xp pro was pirated . but now the xp home has some kind of hex on it . I cant download things I cant change settings . I think somthing sp1 did this. please help
 
airth1 said:
I bought my computer with xp pro, and not using a computer at all prev,
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I screwed it up repeatedly. I lost the operating system and didnot know how
to get it back. I was not given any of the software that came with it.Did
not know software came with it. anyway I went out and bought xp home,
installed it on 20g , and then got xp pro and installed it on 20g on the
same hd. I was tring to download sp1 and the computer shut down . then I
found out that the xp pro was pirated . but now the xp home has some kind of
hex on it . I cant download things I cant change settings . I think somthing
sp1 did this. please help

You can not upgrade an OEM (a non-retail version of XP) operating system of
any kind to any upgrade version of XP unless you get the upgrade only from
the OEM. No way around that. You can not upgrade XP-P to XP-H in any case at
all, but you can upgrade XP-H to XP-P. You can upgrade any installed non-XP
version of Windows to the full retail version of XP-H or XP-P. You can
install a full retail version of XP onto anything as a clean installation.

It should basically say all that stuff in very hard to find and read tiny
print that is difficult to understand and which is hidden by ribs on the
clear and super durable plastic case that a retail upgrade version package
that XP comes in.

If you don't have the full retail (not an upgrade) version of XP-Home or
XP-Pro then you're probably going to have to buy it.

XP-H and XP-P do not come with goodies like Microsoft Office etc. that might
have come bungled with the original "OEM" installation of Windows from the
computer manufacture. If you want that stuff then you need to first use the
recovery CD's that the manufacture might (and might not) still provide,
although some but not all PC manufactures require that you are the original
PC buyer and can prove it against info they have on file already (that's to
help protect against theft). After restoration you could boot the full *OEM*
version of an XP-H or XP-P upgrade from your CD Drive and thereby upgrade to
XP, if necessary (the retail upgrade version of XP won't do it, but the full
retail version of XP will). But if you use the recovery CD's then make sure
to run this program before you go out and get any version of XP:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Utility/1.0/WXP/EN-US/UpgAdv.exe
 
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