Re: How to uninstall windows xp professional and install windows xp home edition

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A. LEVINE wrote:

I would appreciate if some one could advise me how to uninstall
windows xp professional and install windows xp home edition.
If I boot up with the home edition disc, it does not give me the
option to reformat. It wants to install in addition to windows xp
professional. Any help would be appreciated.


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

However why do you want to do this? Are you aware that XP Professional is
a superset of Home? Professional has features not in Home, but there's
nothing in Home that's not also in Professional, and therefore no possible
advantage to doing this.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

One reason I can think of for doing this would be if one determined they had
an illegal version of XP Pro on their computer and decided they wanted to
have a legal system but opted not to shell out the extra bucks for a retail
copy of XP Pro. Home versions are significantly less expensive.

--


Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp



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