How Best to Upgrade from Home to Pro?

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Diane

Is it better to completely reformat the Home partition and start from
scratch, or just upgrade Home to Pro?

Diane
 
If your Home system is running OK, then an over-the-top installation is
fine. It's not like an upgrade from a previous version to another, where
things might not get migrated.

Of course, take a backup beforehand, but a simple upgrade is more than
likely your best option.

Regards

Oli
 
Thank you oli, that's exactly what I'll do. I just made a "Drive Image" of
that partition. So nothing can go wrong that can't be fixed.

Diane
 
First ask yourself why you would want to do this at all. Unless you are
connected to a large corporate network, or you are a high end web developer
who needs to test ASP code in a local IIS environment (and if this means
nothing to you, you are not), then there is absolutely no reason to upgrade
at all.
Windows XP Home is the same code, byte for byte, as Windows XP Pro. There
is no qualitative difference or advantage to be gained from this upgrade
unless you absolutely need one of the few features offered in XP Pro. For
the very vast majority of users, leave it as is, and spend the money on an
upgrade to Office 2003 or something like that.
If, however, you *do* need one of these features, then an in-place
upgrade is just fine. After all, you are overwriting Windows XP with itself.
 
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