Re: problem with going from pro to home edition

"jimjam55" wrote

My computer crash about six months ago, and I got a new hard drive. At that
time, I could not find my Windows XP home edition, so I installed my parents
Windows XP pro version, which worked until two days ago. I was told that this
version was not genuine because it was already installed on another computer.
I looked around and found my orginal version of Window XP home edition which
was an older version and installed it. I was told that my files and settings
would be saved, but when I attempted to login in my two previous accounts
were gone and there was just a new adminstrative account with now programs on
it. I am unable to access any programs or the internet, and then I looked and
my two old account files are still on my hard drive. My question is how would
I get my two old accounts back to being accounts and not just on my hard
drive so that I will be able to access everything the way it was before. I
also already tried a sytsem restore but could not return back before I
installed the home edition. Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

XP Home cannot do an upgrade on XP Pro, so when you installed it, it did not migrate the account settings. There is nothing you can do except reinstall the programs and copy the data from the old accounts to the new setup. You cannot make the old accounts work.

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