Repair XP with nother CD

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I have a compaq laptop and they only give you the quick restore CD. If i use
a friends CD of winodws Xp Pro can i run the repair for my XP home edition?
 
Dagger said:
I have a compaq laptop and they only give you the quick restore CD. If i use
a friends CD of winodws Xp Pro can i run the repair for my XP home edition?
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No. you cannot use a "pro" cd to repair the "home" version
 
No. Read the following:

HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Performing a System Recovery in Windows XP

Perform a standard, non-destructive system recovery:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=bph07145#bph07145_cp

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| I have a compaq laptop and they only give you the quick restore CD. If i use
| a friends CD of winodws Xp Pro can i run the repair for my XP home edition?
 
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