Windows XP Home upgrading to Windows XP Professional

[Guest]

Can i use a 'Windows XP Professional Upgrade Disc' to make a direct new
installation on a pc?
I have Windows XP Home but it would be easier to install directly from the
proffesional disc rather than installing from the home disc, then upgrading
that with the professional disc.

 

[Guest]

A upgrade disc willn't load a complete install you will have to upgrade it
with home install..

 

[Ron Sommer]

Yes
During the installation, you will have to insert the Home disc to prove
ownership of a previous system.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

?

You can do a clean install with an upgrade disk, you just need to show setup
the media from a qualifying product. In the case of WinXP Pro, that'd be the
media disk for Win2K, WinNT4, WinME, Win98/98SE, or Win95. No files are used
from those disks, they just qualify the installation.

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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

I know i am getting old--forgot that one

Yes
During the installation, you will have to insert the Home disc to prove
ownership of a previous system.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Can i use a 'Windows XP Professional Upgrade Disc' to make a direct new
installation on a pc?
I have Windows XP Home but it would be easier to install directly from the
proffesional disc rather than installing from the home disc, then upgrading
that with the professional disc.

It's 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 much more time-consuming, but you get
the same results: a clean installation of WinXP.


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[Bruce Chambers]

A upgrade disc willn't load a complete install you will have to upgrade it
with home install..

Huh? What nonsense is this?

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