Windows XP Home Repair

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Zinzan

I have a Dell PC that is running Windows XP Home Edition. Unfortunately it
will not boot up. It is a friends PC who asked me to look at it while he is
on holiday so I have no access to the CDs that came with the unit. I do
however have a Windows XP Professional CD. IF I boot from this can I repair
the Windows XP Home configuration?

Thanks
 
No. You can attempt an upgrade, but the Home XP Serial # will not work with
the XP Pro CD.

Even attempting an upgrade is risky....things may not work as planned afetr
the upgrade/fix.

I would suggest using Ghost or Acronis True Image to image the drive as-is
before doing anything with it. That way, you can always get back to the way
it was before it was left in your care.
 
No, your Pro CD will not work to repair your friends Windows XP Home
computer.
Also since there are many different types, a Home CD may not work unless it
is identical to your friends.
It seems like you need to wait for your friend to return and give you the
CDs unless you can resolve the issues without any CDs..
 
Zinzan said:
I have a Dell PC that is running Windows XP Home Edition. Unfortunately it
will not boot up. It is a friends PC who asked me to look at it while he is
on holiday so I have no access to the CDs that came with the unit. I do
however have a Windows XP Professional CD. IF I boot from this can I repair
the Windows XP Home configuration?

Thanks
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Hello, I found this site that may be of some assistance, if it is a newer
machine.

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/
take care.
beamish.
 
Hi there

Thanks for that. The problem I have is that the system boots to the light
blue screen with the mouse appearing and just sits there. I think that it
maybe a corrupt driver but am unable to determine which it is. I have tried
booting to Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt and the Last Known
configuration that worked but the system still stalls. I have taken out the
hard drive and inserted it into another PC as a slave and have checked it
out, running anti-virus, spamware and clearing out everything that was
found. I defragmented it and all seemed well, but when I inserted it back
into its PC it still won't work. I tried copying the documents and settings
folders to the other PC while it was a slave but could not do so foe two
users as they had put a password on their profiles so am unable to back
these up. If I could back these up I would then simply reformat the drive
and copy these back. any ideas how I can access the data when the drive is
inserted into another PC? Thanks
 
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