Installing XP home over XP Pro

[Guest]

My version of XP Pro has not been validated as authentic, as the pc didn't
come with the discs I bought XP Home. Is there a way to install Home without
losing all the files and settings i already have?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You cannot install Windows XP Home Edition over an existing
Windows XP Professional installation. A "clean install" of
Windows XP Home Edition is required.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| My version of XP Pro has not been validated as authentic, as the pc didn't
| come with the discs I bought XP Home. Is there a way to install Home without
| losing all the files and settings i already have?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

To add a little to what Carey said...
You can use FAST to preserve you files and settings:
http://aumha.org/a/fast.htm

 

[Guest]

I've been looking for this information all day. I have a dell that fried last
night...been fine up to then....and now it tells me that things are
corrupted, won't start up etc. I had a xp pro installed, but it came with,
don't have the discs. I do have a bona fide version of xp home I can install.

My question: before it gets to the part where it says "perform additional
tasks" and I can transfer my files, etc. will it already have erased them? It
sounds naive....but that's what it says it's going to do in the blue screen,
before I get to that point.

REALLY appreciate your help if it comes. looked at your site. thanks

Val