Re: XP home to Pro upgrade/install

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:40:05 -0700

we did not order a floppy with the dell. can you make a
boot disk cd? i've looked on that site but cannot
determine. it seems it has to be 1.44
>-----Original Message-----
>The upgrade from xp home to xp pro usually goes quite
well. I've never had a
>problem on clients machines. Not sure what the dell tech
or your support is
>saying. Possibly dell machines have probs upgrading from
home to pro, but
>not a properly built xp compatable machine. And the info
they have you about
>especially if it an older version of xp pro is totally
bogus. There is only
>one version and there is sp1 and sp2 for that version.
>When you put in the xp pro cd(while in windows) there is
an upgrade advisor
>that you can run. It will check your machine and tell you
if anything will
>give you troubles. Run it and see what it says.
>If all else fails then try this:
>*Warning - you will lose all data*
>
>Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, run Fdisk, delete
partitions, create new
>partitions, reboot to boot disk again, run format, (or
reboot to xp cd,
>format, install xp). Get boot disk here: www.bootdisk.com
>
>
>
>"JB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:591301c4815f$29ba06b0$a301280a@phx.gbl
>> I worked with Dell support for quite some time on this
>> last nite.
>>
>> When I did it as an upgrade, it stalled in the
>> installation and asked for a usbehic.sys driver. With
>> help from the Univ support, I browsed and found it under
>> windows/system32/i386. I selected it and that's when
the
>> blue screen happened.
>>
>> So, I tried to so a fresh install. When I rebooted, it
>> was now Windows Pro (so, apparently some of the upgrade
>> took). I acessed the boot menu and booted directly from
>> disc.
>>
>> It cycled through setup (prompted me a couple times. Do
>> you want to overwrite what is already on pc? (yes)
>> etc.) then bonked when it said it did not recognize a
hard
>> drive.
>>
>> Dell support walked me through and we did a diagnostics
on
>> the SATA HD. Said ok.
>>
>> But still kept crashing. Even Dell mentioned (tech was
>> IM'ing with a higher level tech while simultaneously
>> helping me) that there are problems going from Home to
>> Pro. Specifically if you are using an older version of
Xp
>> Pro. (the discs I have were university issue and say
Ver
>> 2002).
>>
>> Regarding your questions, I'm not sure about
compatibility
>> wizard, fdisk, etc.
>>
>> I just opened up the dell. Did not install anything.
And
>> popped in the Xp Pro disk.
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Totally 100% false. You're university support doesn't
have a clue.
>>> Did you run the complatability wizard?
>>> What's the error message?
>>> Have you tried a fdisk, format, and install?
>>>
>>> "JB" <jlbondra@katz.pitt.edu> wrote in message
>>> news:5dbc01c48152$567c8900$a401280a@phx.gbl
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have found complications (blue screen of death and
no
>>>> recognition of a hard drive) upgrading or installing
from
>>>> XP Home (on a brand new dell 8400) to XP Pro.
>>>>
>>>> University support said that the past cases suggest
once
>>>> you have Home on your pc, you are stuck with it. is
this
>>>> true?
>>>>
>>>> How is it possible that you cannot upgrade or install
XP
>>>> Pro if you have Home on the pc already..??
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else hear of this?
>>>>
>>>> Now what?
>>>>
>>>> Thx!
>>>
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