Upgade from XP Home to Pro Plus HW

[William J. Burlingame]

I plan to build a new system (motherboard, case, etc). I am currently
using a system with Win XP home edition. In order not to have to
reinstall all my applications, I want to know if there would be
problems if I cloned my current HDD, put it in the new system as the
C: drive then installed a new Win XP Pro over the old OS. Many of
the apps were downloaded and I have no idea what the names of the
installation files are. Some are freeware, some are shareware and
others are apps that I purchased. Even for those that are on
installation disks, I would rather not have to go through all the
settings for those apps again. I presume that when I fire up the HDD
in the new system, it would recognize the new hardware. Would it
choke because of the changes in the hardware profile? Just what kind
of problems would I encounter?

I presume the new mobo's have the ability to boot from the CD and
allow me to install the new OS before running from the HDD with the
old system. I am also concerned about activation. I don't want to
lose the OS on the old system.

If my solution is not viable, is there another way to get got out of
having to reinstall all the apps?
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[Mike Sheats]

I am afraid you will have a really hard time with this.

Your best bet is to start over from scratch with the new built system.

Some of the things you most likely will run into are driver issues,
activation issues and system instability. Many have tried what you want to
do with little or no success.

Good luck!

 

[William J. Burlingame]

Thanks for the response. Of course it wasn't what I wanted to hear,
but there's always hope.

I am afraid you will have a really hard time with this.

Your best bet is to start over from scratch with the new built system.

Some of the things you most likely will run into are driver issues,
activation issues and system instability. Many have tried what you want to
do with little or no success.

Good luck!

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amount of spam mail. Change the 'bs'in my address to 'bellsouth'
to send me a message.

Bill Burlingame

 

[Alex Nichol]

I plan to build a new system (motherboard, case, etc). I am currently
using a system with Win XP home edition. In order not to have to
reinstall all my applications, I want to know if there would be
problems if I cloned my current HDD, put it in the new system as the
C: drive then installed a new Win XP Pro over the old OS.

That would be fine. I would do it in two stages - first boot the Home
CD (provided it is a 'proper' one and do a repair install, from the menu
in setup after the license agreement. This will make sure it is
consistent with the new hardware. Then boot the XP Home and run the Pro
CD from it, taking Install - Upgrade. You only need an Upgrade Pro CD
to do this