Guest Ella.HHuang@gmail.com Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 I would like to remove my XP home edition and install XP pro, what is the best way to do it? I only have one major partition so i got warning message telling me that i will have problems if i install two OS in the same partition. Is it ok to install XP pro and just delete XP home edition after? thanks you~~
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: overwrite XP home edition and install XP pro <Ella.HHuang@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1185280785.876171.78520@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... >I would like to remove my XP home edition and install XP pro, what is > the best way to do it? I only have one major partition so i got > warning message telling me that i will have problems if i install two > OS in the same partition. > Is it ok to install XP pro and just delete XP home edition after? > You should be able to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: overwrite XP home edition and install XP pro On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:39:45 -0700, Ella.HHuang@gmail.com wrote: > I would like to remove my XP home edition and install XP pro, what is > the best way to do it? I only have one major partition so i got > warning message telling me that i will have problems if i install two > OS in the same partition. > Is it ok to install XP pro and just delete XP home edition after? Three points: 1. Buy a Retail Upgrade or Full copy, and simply do an upgrade. It's the easiest and most-likely successful of all possible upgrades, since so little has to be changed. If you've already bought a copy, and it's an OEM version (which can *not* do an upgrade), see if you can exchange it for the Upgrade version. 2. If you want to do a clean installation, which I don't recommend, back up your data, then just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one). You can find detailed instructions here: http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html or here http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp.htm or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm 3. Are you sure you want to do this? Are you aware that XP Home and Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading. For details go to http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp Also note another point, not included in any of the above: Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only five. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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