upgrading xp home to xp pro problems

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i just bought a computer with xp home on it. i inset an xp pro disk into it
and all i can get is that the software i am attempting to run is older than
the version on the machine. i just want to upgrade the OS and am not allowed
to. i have the sp 2 software.
 
Unless SP2 is integrated into XP Pro, then one cannot
upgrade an existing XP Home w/SP2 installation using
a non-SP2 version of XP Pro. What you need to do is
create a SP2 "slipstreamed" version of XP Pro, then use
the new CD to upgrade over XP Home w/SP2.

You have two options:

1. Uninstall SP2 from XP Home, then upgrade to XP Pro.

or

2. Create a SP2 slipstreamed version of XP Pro (preferred)
and use the new XP Pro w/SP2 to upgrade.

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming
(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:

Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

Information on AutoStreamer 1.0
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337&st=0&#entry245

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;875350&Product=windowsxpsp2

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| i just bought a computer with xp home on it. i inset an xp pro disk into it
| and all i can get is that the software i am attempting to run is older than
| the version on the machine. i just want to upgrade the OS and am not allowed
| to. i have the sp 2 software.
 
I have tried both. I cannot uninstall SP2 since it was all installed together
by Dell. I tried to slipstream a CD following your directions. The first one
I tried would not load. The second file I created was too large to go onto a
CD.
All the programmers had to do was give you an override to that message. Too
much of XP has places where they could have given you a choice when to
procede, but decided that the user was too dumb to do this for himself. There
are too many people with the same problem that I have in this forum. This
could be repaired by just giving the user the choice to procede.
 
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