Upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to XP Professional

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a question:
I am using Windows XP Home edition. I want to use IIS and Windows XP Home
edition does not include IIS. Therefore, I'm trying to upgrade from XP home
edition to XP Professional. I have tried running the setup.exe from the
Windows Professional CD but it gives an "error: 70077, paramater
authorization failure" and I don't know why.

All I really need to know is what should I do now to upgrade from XP home
edition to XP professional? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Sur

 

[Jan Alter]

Hi,
First what is "IIS"?

Second: How are you attempting to install XP Pro? Are you starting from the
Windows screen? Are you booting from the XP Pro CD?
Have you changed your bios to start the computer from CD rather than the
hard drive?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hello,

I have a question:
I am using Windows XP Home edition. I want to use IIS and Windows XP Home
edition does not include IIS. Therefore, I'm trying to upgrade from XP home
edition to XP Professional. I have tried running the setup.exe from the
Windows Professional CD but it gives an "error: 70077, paramater
authorization failure" and I don't know why.

Are you using a retail full version of WinXP Pro, or an Upgrade CD?
(An OEM CD cannot perform an upgrade.)

All I really need to know is what should I do now to upgrade from XP home
edition to XP professional? Any help is appreciated.

All that should be necessary is to insert the WinXP Pro Upgrade CD and
follow the on-screen prompts.


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[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,
First what is "IIS"?

Internet Information Server

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[NoStop]

After sticking his head out from his XP firewall, Bruce Chambers had this to
say:

Internet Information Server

A very lacklustre attempt at being a web server.