Reverting to XP Home Edition

[Garner]

I bought a XT963 with XP Home Edition in it. I upgraded
to Professional. I got a faster computer nd installed
Professional in it. I want to revert back to Windows XP
Home Edition in original computer, which came with no
recovery disks. How do I get Windows XP Home Edition
running in my computer again? There is information I
cannot lose in it and Microsoft saw fit to turn their
software in my computer off and not allow me to revert to
the original XP Home Edition, which really suck of
Microsoft!

 

[Malke]

I bought a XT963 with XP Home Edition in it. I upgraded
to Professional. I got a faster computer nd installed
Professional in it. I want to revert back to Windows XP
Home Edition in original computer, which came with no
recovery disks. How do I get Windows XP Home Edition
running in my computer again? There is information I
cannot lose in it and Microsoft saw fit to turn their
software in my computer off and not allow me to revert to
the original XP Home Edition, which really suck of
Microsoft!

Let's see - you bought a computer without being sure you had the
operating system disks and somehow it's Microsoft's fault? I don't know
what an "XT963" is - is this a brand name computer? If it's an HP, for
instance, the operating system is on a hidden partition which you can
access by hitting F10 while the computer is starting up. If you have a
brand-name computer, you should contact the OEM and find out how to
restore. They do need to provide you a way to do this. If you bought
this from a swap sheet or computer show or yard sale, you're sol and
will have to go buy a copy of WinXP HE. Then format, clean install,
reinstall programs from your cd's, restore your data from backup. If
you didn't make backups (and this is Microsoft's fault?), then slave
your hard drive in the other XP machine, copy the data off and burn it
to a cd-r.

Malke