Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade

[Guest]

I Just purchased a Windows XP Home Editon and a Professional Upgrade. I
should have looked at the small print. The professional edition upgrade from
Windows 200 Professional was great, but for my other computer the upgrade
will not work. What is poor is that I was running Windows 98 on that machine,
then upgraded to Win 2000 professional and now I am stuck... Does any one
know if I have any options other than buying another copy of XP Professional
or just performing an FDISK and starting over from Win 98?

 

[Guest]

You do not have to install Windows 98 in order
to perform a clean install of Windows XP.
See the following:

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[Guest]

Let me clarify... I have two computers, both running Windows 2000. The first
I upgraded to XP Professional - No problem. The second I can not up-grade
from Windows 2000 to XO Home Edition even though that computer at one time
ran Win 98. I have all of the original disks for each computer. Any Ideas??

 

[Guest]

You need to purchase a "Retail Upgrade" version
of Windows XP Professional in order to upgrade over
an existing Windows 2000 installation.

Windows XP supported upgrade paths
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292607/en-us

 

[Guest]

Seems very unfair since I upgraded to Win 200 professional from Win 98.

Since I purchased the XP Home Edition Upgrade and opened the box, It looks
like the best solution is to back up the files I want and do a clean load to
windows 98, then upgrade to XP Home Edition. Is there another approach?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Let me clarify... I have two computers, both running Windows 2000.
The first I upgraded to XP Professional - No problem. The second I
can not up-grade from Windows 2000 to XO Home Edition even though
that computer at one time ran Win 98. I have all of the original
disks for each computer. Any Ideas??

Windows 2000 to XP Home is not a valid upgrade path. You can uipgrade 2000
to XP Professional, but not to XP Home.

 

[Rock]

Let me clarify... I have two computers, both running Windows 2000. The first
I upgraded to XP Professional - No problem. The second I can not up-grade
from Windows 2000 to XO Home Edition even though that computer at one time
ran Win 98. I have all of the original disks for each computer. Any Ideas??

:

You can't upgrade XP200 to XP Home. What you can do though is a clean
install with XP Home and when it asks insert the qualifying Win98 CD.
No need to install Win98.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I Just purchased a Windows XP Home Editon and a Professional Upgrade. I
should have looked at the small print. The professional edition upgrade from
Windows 200 Professional was great, but for my other computer the upgrade
will not work. What is poor is that I was running Windows 98 on that machine,
then upgraded to Win 2000 professional and now I am stuck... Does any one
know if I have any options other than buying another copy of XP Professional
or just performing an FDISK and starting over from Win 98?

You don't actually need to re-install Win98, first. It's quite
possible to perform a clean installation using the Upgrade CD, provided
you have the true installation CD for the earlier OS.

Simply boot from the WinXP Upgrade CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. The Upgrade CD checks to see if a qualifying OS
is installed, and, if it finds none, it asks you to insert the
installation media (CD) of that OS. Unfortunately, an OEM
"Recovery/Restore" CD will not work for this purpose; you must have a
true installation CD, complete with the "\Win98" folder and *.cab
files, or the "\i386" folder of WinNT/2K.

Alternatively, or especially if all you have is an OEM Recovery CD
for the earlier OS, you can even start the upgrade from within the
current Win98/Me/NT/2K installation, and still elect to perform a clean
installation, to include formatting the drive. In this case, there's no
further request for the qualifying OS's installation CD, because the
installation routing "remembers" that you started from within the
qualifying OS. This process is more time-consuming, but you get the
same results: a clean installation of WinXP.


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Bruce Chambers

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