XP Home to XP Pro

[Guest]

I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I buy
a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to another?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP
Home. If I buy a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer
data from one to another?

Professional is Home Edition with additional security and networking
features.
Even if you were crazy enough to go Vista for a more drastic change -
everything you created would likely work.

You will - of course - need to install the applications on the new laptop.
Using the Files And Setttings Transfer Wizard - you can get your files/etc
over.

 

[philo]

I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I buy
a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to

another?


Sure just burn all your data to DVD's (or CD's)

then pop the media into your new machine and copy your data over...

you'll need to reinstall your apps of course

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I buy
a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to another?

Of course. Laptop or not, you can always transfer data from one
computer to another.

Here are some of the ways to do it, in no particular order:

1. Diskettes

2. CDRs

3. E-mail from the old and read on the new

4. Network the two together

5. Thumb drive

6. Remove the old hard drive, mount it in a USB enclosure and read and
copy it on the new computer.

Which of these ways is best depends partly on how many files you have
and how big they are.

But once you've transferred the data, you have to be able to read it
on the new computer. That requires that you have appropriate software
installed on the new one. Do not make the mistake of thinking, as many
people do, that just because your old computer came with Microsoft
Word, for example, that the new one necessarily will too.

 

[Charles W Davis]

I suggest Windows Vista. Why buy a 6-year old system? Most computer
manufacturers today don't offer Windows XP.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I suggest Windows Vista. Why buy a 6-year old system? Most computer
manufacturers today don't offer Windows XP.

Actually, many manufacturers do, because many companies simply aren't
anywhere near ready to shift to Vista, and there's lots of legacy software
that either won't run properly on it or hasn't been tested thoroughly and
approved.

As an example, quite near me there's a hospital with 10,000 employees. Many
of the desktop systems still use Windows 2000. New systems *mght* get XP.
Vista won't be used there for years.

Any vendor that wants to actually sell their hardware is still offering XP
as an option. In some cases, it's still the default OS.

HTH
-pk