Re: Upgrade XP Home to XP Professional

What I'm doing is I have one machine with Pro on it at home. I just got a
new hard drive and was going to load XP Home which is what was originally
loaded on the laptop when I purchased it from Dell several years ago. then
upgrade to Pro which is ful version retail after wiping the old hard drive.
I should clean the old hard drive first before upgrading the new one correct
to be in complaint with the microsoft license. I have a utility called
AEFDISK which basically deletes the master boot record making the hard drive
nonbootable till you format it. The other option I have is to hook up the
hard drive using a caddy I have to a USB port and format the drive that way.
Once I do this is all information off the drive so I can go ahead and upgrade
and in compliance with Microsoft licensing. Also is it safe to sell/dispose
of an old hard drive after it has been wipped. Also does it make a
difference if I load all my software first on Home then upgrade or should I
upgrade then load my software. I have anothe machine that is runnign XP home
as well does it make more sense to buy the upgrade or full retial version
when I pln to upgrade this one.

Thansk,
George

"T. Waters" wrote:

> George Schneider wrote:
> > I have a computer runnign XP HOme. Is it possible to upgrade to XP
> > PRO using th XP Pro disk I have.
>
> George, it depends on the provenance of the disk you have.
> If the XP disk was purchased separately, then you can use it. Whether you
> can perform and upgrade installation depends on whether the disk is either:
> Full Retail, or Upgrade version. OEM XP disks can only clean-install.
> If the disk came with a machine that had XP pre-installed, chances are the
> disk will not work on your computer running Home. Exception: many times,
> Dell disks have full functionality on machines other than the one they were
> sold with.
> Warning: Microsoft forbids you installing XP on more than one machine at a
> time. As a result, avoid activating your XP Pro on two different machines
> within a 120-day period.
>
>
>
.

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