XP Home to Pro and H/W Upgrade

[Guest]

I currently run a 2.8 P4 on a 478 board. I am upgrading to a Athlon 64 3000+
on a 939 board.

In order to facilitate this i am upgrading using XP Pro SP2. After kicking
off the upgrade, system reboots. (Setup is inspecting your .....) is expected
but instead I get choose you OS : XP Home or XP Pro Setup.

OK. erm XP Pro Setup.

Upon selecting XP Pro Setup, I am faced with a " disk read error press
ctrl+alt+del"

When selecting Home, it boots fine on the old box, upgrade doesn't even work
on Old Box so it's not an issue with the new hardware. I have tried this
using a variety of combinations

Straight upgrade to Pro on my old box

Adding only required components (graphics, cd, hd) to new box.

Running setup from HD (removing any concerns about CD readability) - I have
done this on numberous occasions and know it to work more efficiently than
off CD.

It took me 4 weeks to get everything installed after the last clean install
so I don't want to do that again.

I have heard tale that it could be my MBR, could this be true and still not
affect my Home install?

Thanks

 

[Mike C.]

What official MS software asks you to install Home or Pro from the same CD?

 

[DL]

You would seem to have made life difficult by trying to upgrade both hw and
the o/s at the same time.
If the sys works with xphome with the origonal hw, upgrade your hw, run a
repair installation of xphome adding the new hw drivers from cd's provided.
If that then works ok, take the next step.

 

[Guest]

It's my multiboot screen that is asking me to choose after starting the
uprade. it's pretty standard

 

[Guest]

i'm going from intel to amd. is a repair installation possible?

the xp home is an oem version as well. I have no cd key to reinstall anyway.

it's now imaterial. this issue was to do with the home install. fixmbr
worked a treat.

os only upgrade fine. the h/w upgrade wont work anyway. getting the good old
BSOS on new board. board seems ok though.