Upgrade from Home to pro Hang

[Guest]

I'm trying to upgrde from XP home to Pro, all seems to go well until the
finalizing installation stage at which point it gets to two minutes and
stops, no error message comes up, but i've left it at this stage for over 6
hours without it proceding.

Its using a gigabyte motherboard and an AMD Athlon 1700+, as well as 512mb
DDR ram and a NVidia TNT2 graphics card. Help anyone?

 

[Guest]

Nothing takes longer than 60-75 minutes if running from a cd,anytime it
runs on w/o getting anywhere stop the proccess....Youre problem is even
though its a XP Pro upgrade,XP Home doesnt and shouldnt be upgraded to
Pro,you need to do a clean installation.Install xp pro cd,boot to xp cd,
select,install xp,new copy,delete the partition (XP Home),create one,then
xp will format the hd and install automatically.

 

[Guest]

But I will then lose all my files as well as my settings, I understood that
Xp Home could be easily changed, I am only upgrading to use the RDC Server
that comes with Pro and not home, VNC is not an option here unfortunatey,
thanks anyway.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

....Youre problem is even though its a XP Pro upgrade,

XP Home doesnt and shouldnt be upgraded to
Pro,you need to do a clean installation.

Baloney. There is absolutely no basis for this misleading advise.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Will,

Remove unnecessary peripherals, and uninstall any third-party CD/DVD burning
software. You can reinstall them later. Then disable your AV product (I
usually just uninstall it too), then run the upgrade. Make sure you have any
needed drivers available before starting.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ken Blake]

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Youre problem is
even though its a XP Pro upgrade,XP Home doesnt and shouldnt be
upgraded to Pro,you need to do a clean installation.

That's completely false. The upgrade from XP Home to XP
Professional is the simplest and most likely successful of all
possible upgrades.