Windows XP Pro Version2002

[Guest]

Have an old version of Windows XP - full version - Version 2002. Is there
any way to use it in upgrading a new version of Windows XP Home Edition to
Windows XP Pro? Or do I have to acquire a new version of Windows XP Pro
Upgrade?

J

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Version 2002 is the latest. You can either have SP1/1a or SP2 of both XP
Home and XP Pro. Right click on My Computer and select Properties - what do
you see under 'System:'?

I have;

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Have an old version of Windows XP - full version - Version 2002. Is there
any way to use it in upgrading a new version of Windows XP Home Edition to
Windows XP Pro? Or do I have to acquire a new version of Windows XP Pro
Upgrade?

The retail full version of XP Pro can be used to upgrade XP Home to Pro.
If yours is an OEM version of Pro, that can not be used to upgrade. A
possible problem you may run into is if your Home install has any service
packs applied. If that is the case, you will need to either remove the
service packs, or create a slipstreamed version of your XP Pro that
includes at least the same service pack level as you have on your Home
installation.
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
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[Guest]

The package says "For PCs without Windows, or PCs with Windows 95 or earlier
versions". So that leads me to believe upgrading a current XP Home
installation is dangerous at best. Received the package right around the
time of the first XP PRO release - 2-3 years ago.

J

 

[Tom Porterfield]

The package says "For PCs without Windows, or PCs with Windows 95 or earlier
versions". So that leads me to believe upgrading a current XP Home
installation is dangerous at best. Received the package right around the
time of the first XP PRO release - 2-3 years ago.

That is the wording on the full retail version of XP Pro. It reads that
way as that version can be used to do a clean install on a PC that had no
previous version of Windows, or had a version that does not qualify for
upgrade pricing. However it can also be used to do an upgrade install of
either an upgradeable previous version of Windows (Windows 2000
workstation, Windows 98, Windows ME) or as an upgrade over XP Home. This
was extensively tested during the beta. Using that disk to upgrade XP Home
is no more dangerous than using the version of XP Pro requires a qualifying
upgrade product, the upgrade version.

As I stated, your possible point of difficulty is if your XP Home
installation has a service pack applied. In that case you will get an
error stating that you can not install this over a newer version of
Windows. If that is the case, you can use a tool such as nLite
(http://nuhi.msfn.org/index.html) to build a slipstreamed XP Pro disk from
your current disk + the full service pack as available from Microsoft at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en.
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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[Ken Blake]

In

The package says "For PCs without Windows, or PCs with Windows
95 or
earlier versions". So that leads me to believe upgrading a
current
XP Home installation is dangerous at best.

No, there's no issue to be concerned with here (other than the
one of service packs--see below). There has only been a single
version of XP (either Home or Professional) released, and that's
the one you have.

The only issue to worry about is the one Tom pointed out. If you
have applied either service pack to XP Home, and you try to
upgrade using a CD of XP Professional without it, you will get a
complaint that you are trying to upgrade with an older version.
If that's the case, you have two choices:
1. Uninstall the service pack, do the upgrade, then reinstall the
service pack.



2. Create a slipstreamed version of XP Professional, including
the service pack, and use it. See

http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262


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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[Alex Nichol]

Have an old version of Windows XP - full version - Version 2002. Is there
any way to use it in upgrading a new version of Windows XP Home Edition to
Windows XP Pro? Or do I have to acquire a new version of Windows XP Pro
Upgrade?

A Full version CD will do an upgrade - provided that it is not an OEM
one, and that its license as represented by the Product key is not in
use on another machine.