Is it possible to ditch XP Pro for XP Home?

[Blackshadow]

I have a desktop machine that is running XP Pro but I am having some
problems and think I will need to do a reinstall - is it possible to ditch
XP Pro for XP Home? (As I no longer have the XP Pro disk).
If so is it possible to do with an upgrade version of XP Home (I have both
Win 98SE and Win 2000 System disks) and how do I go about doing so?
TIA

 

[Chris Lanier]

If you wish to goto windows XP Home you will have to do a clean install.
Windows XP Pro should be see and you will jsut be able to do a clean install
of Windows XP Home.

 

[Wendy]

This will help you in your quest to install xp
take note you will need the qualifying media using a upgrade disk

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941&Product=winxp

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a desktop machine that is running XP Pro but I am having some
problems and think I will need to do a reinstall - is it possible to ditch
XP Pro for XP Home? (As I no longer have the XP Pro disk).
If so is it possible to do with an upgrade version of XP Home (I have both
Win 98SE and Win 2000 System disks) and how do I go about doing so?

You could use the Win98 SE disk (but not the Win2000 one) with a Home
Upgrade CD. You do it as part of a reinstall of the system after
booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement
take New Install. When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select
and delete the current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted
at the next stage. That will ensure that the clean start is *really*
clean. Once on its way it will then ask where Windows is to be found -
show it the 98SE disk in the drive at that point, and put the XP one
back when it comes up with a blue screen asking for a CD

If the 98SE were an 'OEM' one without a Win98 folder containing .cab
fu=iles, you would have to use that to restore that system and then run
the upgrade from it, to Upgrade