Upgrade Emachine from XP Home to XP Pro

[Kenobe]

Hey y'all.
I need assistance with an upgrade of my Emachine T3256 from XP Home to
XP Pro. The reason for this is because I have this program that will
only run on XP Pro and above.
I bought the XP Pro CD, but I did not have much success with the
upgrade. I ran the setup, chose the Upgrade Option, then the Online
Update, and setup started copying files successfully. However, upon
restarting the first time, I got the error that " Setup cannot find the
Windows Installation you are trying to Upgrade".
At the same time, I could not boot back to XP Home as some files were
missing. I had to use the Emachine Restore DVD to recover back to XP
Home.
Can anyone assist with suggestions on how I can go about the upgrade?
Any assistance will be highly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Frankster]

Did you buy the XP Pro retail edition or the OEM edition? The OEM edition is
not designed for "upgrades", ony fresh installs.

Secondly, considering you already had to do a recovery, odds are that the
system is not very friendly anymore anyway, compared to how you had it
before the recovery. Perhaps now is a good time to do a completely fresh
install by booting from the Pro Cd, deleting and recreating the disk
partition, formatting and installing.

-Frank

 

[Richard in AZ]

Before you take Frankster's advice, be sure you have copies of all the hardware drivers that are
normally on the E-Machine restore disk. Go to E-Machine's web site and download all the hardware
drivers for your model and put them on a CD or USB drive.
E-Machines are not very user friendly to upgrades as you have found out.