Installing XP Pro over a newer edition of XP Home

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Our computer crashed and we hired a person to put a new hard drive in and
save our documents. The person installed XP Home on our computer as the OS.
I have the copy of XP pro that came with the computer. When I tried to
install it, I got the message that a newer form of XP was on the computer and
that I would have to delete that copy to install the XP pro. How do I go
about deleting the XP home off of the compute? I think I now how to do
everything else once the old OS is deleted.

Thanks
Del Dobbs

 

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| Our computer crashed and we hired a person to put a new hard drive in and
| save our documents. The person installed XP Home on our computer as the OS.
| I have the copy of XP pro that came with the computer. When I tried to
| install it, I got the message that a newer form of XP was on the computer and
| that I would have to delete that copy to install the XP pro. How do I go
| about deleting the XP home off of the compute? I think I now how to do
| everything else once the old OS is deleted.
|
| Thanks
| Del Dobbs

 

[Ken Blake]

Our computer crashed and we hired a person to put a new hard drive in
and save our documents. The person installed XP Home on our computer
as the OS. I have the copy of XP pro that came with the computer.
When I tried to install it, I got the message that a newer form of XP
was on the computer and that I would have to delete that copy to
install the XP pro. How do I go about deleting the XP home off of
the compute? I think I now how to do everything else once the old OS
is deleted.

Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to
accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the
existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Our computer crashed and we hired a person to put a new hard drive in and
save our documents. The person installed XP Home on our computer as the OS.
I have the copy of XP pro that came with the computer. When I tried to
install it, I got the message that a newer form of XP was on the computer and
that I would have to delete that copy to install the XP pro. How do I go
about deleting the XP home off of the compute? I think I now how to do
everything else once the old OS is deleted.

Thanks
Del Dobbs

This means that your installed OS is at a higher service pack level
than is the WinXP Pro CD you're using. You'll either need to uninstall
SP2 (Control Panel, Add/Remove programs) before attempting the upgrade,
or try slipstreaming SP2 into older WinXP installation.

For slip-streaming the service pack and subsequent updates to WinXP:

How to integrate software updates into your Windows installation source
files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828930

SlipStreaming WinXP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm


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