Question on upgrading to XP Professional

[William Gower]

I purchased a new laptop to replace my broken one which will not be
replaced. I had XP Professional on it and had gone to SP 2. My new laptop
came with XP Home Edition with SP 2 on it. Unfortunately I cannot use my XP
Professional upgrade to upgrade the laptop because it says that the XP on
the new laptop is newer than the one on the CD. Incidentally the upgrade
version cd is not used on any other machine. It is unused and useless as
far as I can see now. Unless someone has a solution for me, other than
buying a new XP professional upgrade CD.

 

[Guest]

Actually xp pro should work fine on the new computer,youre just going about
it wrong.On start-up,set in BIOS to boot to xp cd,which you need to install
at
this point,then boot to xp pro cd,at info screen select,install xp,new
copy,delete
the current partition (xp home),create one,then let xp format and
install.While
pro shouldnt be installed or upgraded over home anyway,it requires a clean
installation....

 

[WTC]

I purchased a new laptop to replace my broken one which will not be
replaced. I had XP Professional on it and had gone to SP 2. My new laptop
came with XP Home Edition with SP 2 on it. Unfortunately I cannot use my
XP Professional upgrade to upgrade the laptop because it says that the XP
on the new laptop is newer than the one on the CD. Incidentally the
upgrade version cd is not used on any other machine. It is unused and
useless as far as I can see now. Unless someone has a solution for me,
other than buying a new XP professional upgrade CD.

Create a bootable XP CD with SP2

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I purchased a new laptop to replace my broken one which will not be
replaced. I had XP Professional on it and had gone to SP 2. My new
laptop came with XP Home Edition with SP 2 on it. Unfortunately I
cannot use my XP Professional upgrade to upgrade the laptop because
it says that the XP on the new laptop is newer than the one on the
CD. Incidentally the upgrade version cd is not used on any other
machine. It is unused and useless as far as I can see now. Unless
someone has a solution for me, other than buying a new XP
professional upgrade CD.

Create a slipstreamed XP CD with SP 2.
Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Setup cannot continue because.....newer...version.
#29 on the FAQ list.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html
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[Guest]

You almost certainly do NOT need to do anything. Just
leave the new laptop alone, even though it has XP Home on
it.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Actually xp pro should work fine on the new computer,youre just going about
it wrong.On start-up,set in BIOS to boot to xp cd,which you need to install
at
this point,then boot to xp pro cd,at info screen select,install xp,new
copy,delete
the current partition (xp home),create one,then let xp format and
install.

That's the hard way.

While
pro shouldnt be installed or upgraded over home anyway,it requires a clean
installation....

That's an outright lie.


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[Bruce Chambers]

I purchased a new laptop to replace my broken one which will not be
replaced. I had XP Professional on it and had gone to SP 2. My new laptop
came with XP Home Edition with SP 2 on it. Unfortunately I cannot use my XP
Professional upgrade to upgrade the laptop because it says that the XP on
the new laptop is newer than the one on the CD. Incidentally the upgrade
version cd is not used on any other machine. It is unused and useless as
far as I can see now. Unless someone has a solution for me, other than
buying a new XP professional upgrade CD.

Have you tried to slipstream SP2 with the Upgrade CD to make a new one?
That would be the easiest method.

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