Upgrading Windows XP

[Alastair MacFarlane]

Dear All,

I would like to move from Windows XP Home (Service Pack 2) to Windows XP
Professional so I can work with the IIS Server. I have a full version of XP
professional on CD-Rom and not an upgrade version. Can you upgrade and leave
all your registry and software settings when you upgrade or can someone
point me to a knowledge base page that takes you through this step-by-step?

Thanks again.

Alastair MacFarlane

 

[Jerry]

You can successfully upgrade from Home to Pro without losing things. You may
have a problem since you have Home w/SP2 and didn't say the version of Pro.
To do it right Pro also must be an SP2 version.

 

[Richard Urban]

Backup all your important information.

You can use the Windows XP Professional (full install) CD to perform an
upgrade to a Windows XP system that is already loaded. You have the
opportunity, during the install to repair an existing windows setup. Choose
this option.

All your settings and customizations "should" be preserved. You will have to
go to the Windows Update site and re-download all the necessary updates that
are not included on your XP Professional CD. You will also have to reapply
many drivers, as they may/will have been changed to the generic Windows XP
drivers.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Robert Gething]

Dear All,

I would like to move from Windows XP Home (Service Pack 2) to Windows XP
Professional so I can work with the IIS Server. I have a full version of XP
professional on CD-Rom and not an upgrade version. Can you upgrade and leave
all your registry and software settings when you upgrade or can someone
point me to a knowledge base page that takes you through this step-by-step?

Thanks again.

Alastair MacFarlane

It might work if you just insert the disk while XP Home is running as
apposed to booting from the disk. You should be asked whether you want
to upgrade or install @ some point during the installation.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Yes, and if the Pro disk is not SP2, you will get a warning about the
current installation being newer and setup will fail. You can use the full
version disk to create a new disk slipstreamed with SP2 to get around this.
You will find instructions here:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Richard Urban]

Darn! I totally forgot about that!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

Rick,

If you are upgrading from Home SP2 to the original retail Professional
version (no SP2) will this still apply? I have never tried this!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[NoStop]

From his spyware and virus infected Windoze box, Richard Urban had this to
say:

Rick,

If you are upgrading from Home SP2 to the original retail Professional
version (no SP2) will this still apply? I have never tried this!

Richard that is precisely what Rick just said.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Yes, it will apply unless you are formatting and doing a clean installation.
WinXP Pro setup will see the Home w/SP2 as a newer version and setup will
not continue. You must use an SP2 version to upgrade.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ron Martell]

Dear All,

I would like to move from Windows XP Home (Service Pack 2) to Windows XP
Professional so I can work with the IIS Server. I have a full version of XP
professional on CD-Rom and not an upgrade version. Can you upgrade and leave
all your registry and software settings when you upgrade or can someone
point me to a knowledge base page that takes you through this step-by-step?

Thanks again.

Alastair MacFarlane

If you have a *Retail* full install or a *Volume Licensed* full
install version of Windows XP then you can do an upgrade install over
your XP Home and it will work just fine.

However if your full install version is an *OEM* version then you
cannot do this. OEM versions will have the notation "For sale or
distribution only with a new computer system" (or words to that
effect) on the CD and/or may have the name or logo of a computer
manufacturer on it as well. These will not do an upgrade install.

With an OEM version you could use the Files and Settings Transfer
wizard while running XP Home to save your user data files and program
configuration settings to a different hard drive partition, a network
drive, or a removable backup device such as a CD or DVD burner. Then
you would have to format the hard drive, or at least the partition
where Windows is installed, and install the OEM XP Pro. After
reinstalling the application programs you can run the FASTW from
within XP Pro to import the saved data and configuration settings.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

 

[Pete]

No !

Backup all your important information.

You can use the Windows XP Professional (full install) CD to perform an
upgrade to a Windows XP system that is already loaded. You have the
opportunity, during the install to repair an existing windows setup.
Choose this option.

All your settings and customizations "should" be preserved. You will have
to go to the Windows Update site and re-download all the necessary updates
that are not included on your XP Professional CD. You will also have to
reapply many drivers, as they may/will have been changed to the generic
Windows XP drivers.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Pete]

!

Darn! I totally forgot about that!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Pete]

!

Rick,

If you are upgrading from Home SP2 to the original retail Professional
version (no SP2) will this still apply? I have never tried this!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!