upgrade from Home to Pro

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I'm looking to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro for the use of IIS. For the
upgrade package does it format the hard drive, or does it just upgrade the
Home version file to Pro and add some features?

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Mike said:
I'm looking to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro for the use of IIS. For
the upgrade package does it format the hard drive, or does it just
upgrade the Home version file to Pro and add some features?
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It does whichever you prefer; you'll be given the choice. Despite
what many people think, you can do a clean installation with an
upgrade version. The requirement to use an upgrade version is to
*own* a previous qualifying version's installation CD (not an OEM
restore CD), not to have it installed. When setup doesn't find a
previous qualifying version installed, it will prompt you to
insert its CD as proof of ownership. Just insert the previous
version's CD, and follow the prompts. Everything proceeds quite
normally and quite legitimately.
 
My current PC came with Xp home, i have no cd's to put it and i really don't
feel like droppng 400 on XP pro for IIS
 
What is the the recovery process? Do you have a Recovery CD or Recovery
Partition. You computer must come with a method to recovery your current XP
in case of a hard drive failure.

If you do not have any recovery meyhod, then pay for the full version of XP
Pro. It will be cheaper in the long run!
 
Mike said:
I'm looking to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro for the use of IIS. For the
upgrade package does it format the hard drive, or does it just upgrade the
Home version file to Pro and add some features?
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If you run the Upgrade Pro CD from the existing Home system, you then
enter Install and take Upgrade. You will then have the extra features,
and installed programs and data will be retained: some system settings
will revert to default values
 
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