XP Home Recovery

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Smudgey

HP doesn't send a recovery disk with their PCs. I need
to do a recovery because my machine boots to an
unreadable error message and then reboots. It continues
in this loop ad infinitum. HP instructed me on how to do
a recovery if I can find a cd. I have a cd for XP Pro
and am covered under the enterprise licensing agreement
at work.
Question: can I do a recovery of Home edition using a
Pro edition CD?
 
You can't use an XP Pro CD to repair a XP Home installation.
You need to go out and purchase a "Full Version" of XP Home
in order to perform repairs.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| HP doesn't send a recovery disk with their PCs. I need
| to do a recovery because my machine boots to an
| unreadable error message and then reboots. It continues
| in this loop ad infinitum. HP instructed me on how to do
| a recovery if I can find a cd. I have a cd for XP Pro
| and am covered under the enterprise licensing agreement
| at work.
| Question: can I do a recovery of Home edition using a
| Pro edition CD?
 
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