Home ---> Pro Upgrade

[Steevo]

I recently took my PC back to the shop for repair after a software error and
when it returned (after having been wiped) the shop had upgraded the version
of XP Home that came with the machine up to SP2.

On inserting my XP Pro disc and attempting to upgrade the system to XP Pro I
received an error message telling me the version of Windows I was trying to
upgrade was newer than the version I was attempting to install. Is there any
way (other than a complete reinstall of Windows) that I would be able to
upgrade from XP Home SP2 to XP Pro?


Many thanks

 

[Rock]

I recently took my PC back to the shop for repair after a software error and
when it returned (after having been wiped) the shop had upgraded the version
of XP Home that came with the machine up to SP2.

On inserting my XP Pro disc and attempting to upgrade the system to XP Pro I
received an error message telling me the version of Windows I was trying to
upgrade was newer than the version I was attempting to install. Is there any
way (other than a complete reinstall of Windows) that I would be able to
upgrade from XP Home SP2 to XP Pro?


Many thanks

Make an installation CD of XP Pro slipstreamed with SP2. That can be
used to upgrade XP Home XP2. Here are some links on slipstreaming:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/beginner/localsource.htm

 

[Guest]

XP Home doesnt upgrade to XP Pro,the upgrade is for prior windows OS,
To go from home to pro,microsoft says a clean installation of pro is
required....

 

[Rock]

XP Home doesnt upgrade to XP Pro,the upgrade is for prior windows OS,
To go from home to pro,microsoft says a clean installation of pro is
required....

:

Not true. Home to Pro is a legitimate upgrade path.

 

[Ken Blake]

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XP Home doesnt upgrade to XP Pro,the upgrade is for prior
windows OS,
To go from home to pro,microsoft says a clean installation of
pro is
required....

You've said this here before, and it's been pointed out to you
before that you are completely wrong. Stop repeating
misinformation.
Yes, you can upgrade XP Home to Professional. There is no special
upgrade version just for this, but the regular XP Professional
Upgrade works fine (although it doesn't say so on the box). In
fact, it's the easiest and most likely successful of all possible
upgrades.

 

[BrianC]

Ah, one of your time-wasters.

XP Home doesnt upgrade to XP Pro,the upgrade is for prior windows OS,
To go from home to pro,microsoft says a clean installation of pro is
required....

 

[Steevo]

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You've said this here before, and it's been pointed out to you before that
you are completely wrong. Stop repeating misinformation.
Yes, you can upgrade XP Home to Professional. There is no special upgrade
version just for this, but the regular XP Professional Upgrade works fine
(although it doesn't say so on the box). In fact, it's the easiest and
most likely successful of all possible upgrades.

Many thanks for the prompt reply, Ken. I know it is possible to upgrade from
Home to Pro, since I have performed this upgrade several times previously on
machines. Unfortunately though, the problem appears to be that the Home
version I am attempting to upgrade is SP2, whereas my Pro cd is just the
basic Pro version, which therefore is older than my current install, being
as it does not contain SP2.

Many thanks

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Many thanks for the prompt reply, Ken. I know it is possible to
upgrade from Home to Pro, since I have performed this upgrade
several
times previously on machines. Unfortunately though, the problem
appears to be that the Home version I am attempting to upgrade
is
SP2, whereas my Pro cd is just the basic Pro version, which
therefore
is older than my current install, being as it does not contain
SP2.

Because you have SP2 installed, and your XP Professional Upgrade
is without it, you're trying to upgrade with an older version
than what's installed.

You have two choices:

1. Uninstall SP2, do the upgrade, then reinstall SP2.

2. Create a slipstreamed version of XP Professional, including
SP2, and use it. See

http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262

 

[Steevo]

In
Because you have SP2 installed, and your XP Professional Upgrade is
without it, you're trying to upgrade with an older version than what's
installed.

You have two choices:

1. Uninstall SP2, do the upgrade, then reinstall SP2.

Excellent, I didn't know it was possible to uninstall SP2 - I assumed that
once it was installed it could not be reverted. Just looked in Add/Remove
programs and found it there at the bottom of the list...

2. Create a slipstreamed version of XP Professional, including SP2, and
use it. See

http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262

Had heard about this method of creating an SP2 version of an XP cd althought
I was unsure whether or not this was an official or unofficial method of
getting around the problem. I didn't want to end up causing more harm than
good.


Thanks for the help!

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Excellent, I didn't know it was possible to uninstall SP2 - I
assumed
that once it was installed it could not be reverted. Just
looked in
Add/Remove programs and found it there at the bottom of the
list...


Had heard about this method of creating an SP2 version of an XP
cd
althought I was unsure whether or not this was an official or
unofficial method of getting around the problem. I didn't want
to end
up causing more harm than good.


Thanks for the help!

You're welcome. Slipstreaming is fine and if I were in your
shoes, that's what I would do. You can't cause any harm trying
it. Worst case, if you do it wrong, the slipstreamed version just
won't work.