Upgrading from Home Edition to Professional

[Guest]

Hi,

I was running XP Pro on my old machine. The mother board is fried now, so I bought a new system from Dell which came with XP Home installed on it. I want to upgrade again to Pro.

My question is this: If I simply perform an "upgrade" type installation of XP Pro, will it be just as good as if Pro was installed originally? I don't really want to do a clean install because I don't want to re-pave my hard drive and have to install all my software, devices, and drivers again. I have neither the time nor the knowledge to get quite that involved.

I'd sure appreciate any help.

Eric

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Yes.

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Hi,

I was running XP Pro on my old machine. The mother board is fried now, so

I bought a new system from Dell which came with XP Home installed on it. I
want to upgrade again to Pro.

My question is this: If I simply perform an "upgrade" type installation

of XP Pro, will it be just as good as if Pro was installed originally? I
don't really want to do a clean install because I don't want to re-pave my
hard drive and have to install all my software, devices, and drivers again.
I have neither the time nor the knowledge to get quite that involved.