upgrading XP home to XP Pro

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Erik

I am attempting to intall XP Pro on a new laptop that came
OEM with XP home. I am attempting to use a System Recover
CD which came with my desktop system (which is now
failing). Although my desktop came loaded with Win2000, I
was told the XP license was included; hence the two system
recovery disks.

As I do not plan on using the desktop anymore, I thought I
would use the XP license on the notebook instead.

When I try to run the install program, I get an error 1722
There is a problem with this windows installer package.

Does anyone have any ideas? Sorry for the long post.

Thanks,

Erik
(please remove the x at the beginning of my name)
 
You wont need the old license,it wont transfer to
another machine,1 license 1 machine.
Install the new xp pro disk,reboot,boot to cd,xp will
offer the install,or go to recovery in pro,format the
hd for a clean install then let pro install.
 
Erik said:
I am attempting to intall XP Pro on a new laptop that came
OEM with XP home. I am attempting to use a System Recover
CD which came with my desktop system (which is now
failing). Although my desktop came loaded with Win2000, I
was told the XP license was included; hence the two system
recovery disks.

As I do not plan on using the desktop anymore, I thought I
would use the XP license on the notebook instead.

When I try to run the install program, I get an error 1722
There is a problem with this windows installer package.

Does anyone have any ideas? Sorry for the long post.
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Erik,

I can tell you this.. Legally the copy of XP home you have is tied to the
laptop in question and the copy of whatever came with the desktop is also
tied to it legally. OEM copies are legally tied to the first system they
are installed upon.

Also, since you only have recovery CDs - well - here is the neat thing about
recovery CDs.. they are made to restore one TYPE of system.. They are
usually NOT full installs of an OS, highly modified to go onto one hardware
set. In other words, you are out of luck using said recovery CDs to
"recover" on a completely different machine.
 
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