XP Pro to XP home edition

[Guest]

Anyone seen this problem? I had XP Pro on another machine and the CD got
scratched bad. So I bought a new copy of just the Home Edition and now I
cannot use my backup hard drive. It says it is a foreign disk in the disk
manager and if I want to change it to a basic disk it will erase all data. I
cannot afford to loose the data on the disk. Is there any way to fix this
without wasting more money on XP pro?

 

[Mac]

All you need to do is ask MS for a replacement XP Pro CD - send the damaged
on and they will replace...

Should never have bothered buying anything to replace..

 

[Malke]

Anyone seen this problem? I had XP Pro on another machine and the CD
got scratched bad. So I bought a new copy of just the Home Edition and
now I cannot use my backup hard drive. It says it is a foreign disk in
the disk manager and if I want to change it to a basic disk it will
erase all data. I cannot afford to loose the data on the disk. Is
there any way to fix this without wasting more money on XP pro?

This isn't an issue of Pro/Home. It sounds like you had set your
original drives to be dynamic. Back up the data on your second hard
drive using Knoppix or a Bart's PE and then you can change it to a
basic disk and format it.

Malke

 

[Kerry Brown]

You need to import the foreign disk.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189/EN-US/