Proffesional Xp and OEM xp

[Guest]

I bought a pc off a friend. It had windows xp pro on it to show that it worked fine when I received it. It did so when I got it I took out my sealed brand new copy of xp home OEM

When I have formatted the hard drive and try to install windows xp OEM it will not have it, basicly when I get to the setup stage where you would choose where you want windows installed it cannot find the harddrive

It is a Seagate Serial drive

Is there any differences between XP proffesional and OEM XP home as to why this would happen?

 

[Joe727]

You are asking two different things.

1 - Was the XP Pro Operating System that was on the PC Retail or OEM?

2 - What brand of PC is it?

Joe

I bought a pc off a friend. It had windows xp pro on it to show that it

worked fine when I received it. It did so when I got it I took out my
sealed brand new copy of xp home OEM.

When I have formatted the hard drive and try to install windows xp OEM it

will not have it, basicly when I get to the setup stage where you would
choose where you want windows installed it cannot find the harddrive?

It is a Seagate Serial drive!

Is there any differences between XP proffesional and OEM XP home as to why

this would happen?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

OEM can be Home or Professional.
However if you are performing a Clean Installation, necessary since
you bought OEM, it does not matter what was installed in the past.

Try it this way:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/cleanxp.htm

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I bought a pc off a friend. It had windows xp pro on it to show

that it worked fine when I received it. It did so when I got it I
took out my sealed brand new copy of xp home OEM.

When I have formatted the hard drive and try to install windows xp

OEM it will not have it, basicly when I get to the setup stage where
you would choose where you want windows installed it cannot find the
harddrive?

It is a Seagate Serial drive!

Is there any differences between XP proffesional and OEM XP home as

to why this would happen?

 

[RonK]

You need a floppy disk with the serial drivers on it. At the first window
during the install you will see "Hit F6 if you need to install a scsi
driver --------"

I bought a pc off a friend. It had windows xp pro on it to show that it

worked fine when I received it. It did so when I got it I took out my
sealed brand new copy of xp home OEM.

When I have formatted the hard drive and try to install windows xp OEM it

will not have it, basicly when I get to the setup stage where you would
choose where you want windows installed it cannot find the harddrive?

It is a Seagate Serial drive!

Is there any differences between XP proffesional and OEM XP home as to why

this would happen?

 

[Michael Stevens]

I bought a pc off a friend. It had windows xp pro on it to show that
it worked fine when I received it. It did so when I got it I took
out my sealed brand new copy of xp home OEM.

When I have formatted the hard drive and try to install windows xp
OEM it will not have it, basicly when I get to the setup stage where
you would choose where you want windows installed it cannot find the
harddrive?

It is a Seagate Serial drive!

Is there any differences between XP proffesional and OEM XP home as
to why this would happen?

See if any of the information helps from the web site listed below. Please
post back with the results.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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