Re: XP Home to XP Pro 'Upgrade' Question

Because your new computer likely has SP2 preinstalled,
you'll need to create a new Windows XP Pro CD with
SP2 slipstreamed, then "Upgrade" to Windows XP Pro.

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming
(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:

Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

or

AutoStreamer 1.0.33 (preferred)
http://www.wbeta.com/comments.php?shownews=1063&catid=2

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Bob" wrote:

| First let me set the stage -- I am a member of a local ski patrol group and
| about 2.5 years ago we purchased a laptop for the group. We use it for
| training and presentations as well as part of our network of PCs to
| administrate our annual Ski Swap. Shortly after we had bought the laptop, we
| upgraded it from XP Home to XP Pro (actually we have a full version of XP Pro
| that we did the upgrade with). Now skip forward in time to the present --
| The "old" laptop has died and we have decided to purchase a new one (actually
| have the new laptop in hand).
|
| My questions:
| 1.) Can I use the full version of XP Pro to upgrade the new laptop from XP
| Home? Since the Old laptop in now dead, can I install this full package on
| the new machine. This is not the OS that came with the old lap top but a
| full package that we purchased, but it was installed / activated on the old
| lap top 2.5 years ago. We need > 5 network connections for our ski swap
| (actually we need 6) and XP Home limits you to 5 simultaneous connections,
| that is why I need to upgrade it to XP Pro.
|
| 2.) Hints on how to go about the upgrade? I put the CD in the new lap top
| and tried to run it and got an error (The version of Windows on the CD is
| older than the version currently installed on the PC) Can do the upgrade
| without loosing all of the files and programs already loaded on the new
| laptop?
|
|
| Thanks for the help
.

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