Re: Upgrading XP-Home w/SP2 to XP-Pro w/SP2
- From: "M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:25:30 +0100
"Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Patrick Keenan wrote:
"Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Patrick Keenan wrote:
Upgrade versions require one of two things. The first is an
installed qualifying version of Windows, and you are running that
now, so after backing up your data you can just run the upgrade.
The second is proof that you have such a version, and that just
means that you have an installation CD for a qualifying version. As
an example, in the case of drive failure, you install a new hard
drive which obviously has no OS. You boot from the XP Upgrade CD,
and allow it to start Setup. At some point, it will stop and ask
you to insert the old Windows CD. Take out the XP disk, put in the
other one, you will be told when to put the XP disk back in.
This CD can be a version of Win98 (possibly SE needed), ME, 2000, or
XP Home or Media Center Edition.
The catch to this second thing is that your "restore" CD will
probably not work for this, so you'd have to find another qualifying
install CD to borrow for the occasion. You *do* have a license
already, it's just that the way it's packaged may not work for the
upgrade process.
(Excellent post, Patrick!)
Strictly speaking, *does* the OP have the license? That is, isn't his
license for a *specific* branded (Gateway) OEM version of XP Home
(which is physically unable to be used as qualifying media in a
clean-install upgrade)?
Hold up...
I just found the following at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.php :
[quote]
So what do you do if your OEM CD or Restore disk does not work as
qualifying media? One neat new feature of XP allows one to get around
this problem. First, start the XP clean install from within an
existing qualified install rather then from the XP CD or from a DOS
prompt. When you see the screen that ask what type of install to do,
change "Upgrade (Recommended)" to "New install." You can then select
the existing partition, format it, and do a Clean Install, never
having to insert
your qualifying product CD.
[/quote]
I've done this. It does work.
It means you could, in a pinch, use your "restore" CD, then
immediately wipe it with the XP Upgrade. Waste of time, though.
But still, I can just see Microsoft attorneys claiming that the
customer's license doesn't entitle him to perform an in-place
upgrade, but only a clean install. Is there any actual documentation
to the contrary? I'm aware the upgrade path (in this case) is OEM XP
Home to Retail XP Pro (with either a Full or Upgrade disk). I
*suppose* it's
okay to assume this holds true for *all* OEM versions. Still, I find
it curious that a customer is physically unable to perform an
in-place upgrade unless they obtain yet *another* OEM disk (but one
that is generic OEM!).
You can do the in-place upgrade, you've paid the basic license cost
with the PC.
But you may not be able to use a "restore" CD to qualify a clean
install to a replacement hard disk using an Upgrade CD. You'd have
to either restore with the CD first or get another qualifying CD.
The upgrade install is going to have another license key anyway, and
AFAIK the qualification check does not look for a key.
Are there any instances of specific branded OEM disks able to be
used as (physical) qualifying media when it comes to an in-place
upgrade? If so, I wonder if OP's disk is one of them.
It would only be the case if it was an actual installable CD, that
uses the XP setup routine, not a "restore" CD that installs a
preconfigured image. Those use a different file packaging and what
the qualifier looks for won't be where it's expected.
But if by "in-place upgrade" you mean to an existing, installed
version of XP - one that is already in place - *that* is what the
upgrade checks, not the CD.
I guess my mind took an odd detour back there!
So, for an in-place upgrade, it just checks that a qualifying OS (in
this case, a Gateway-OEM version on XP Home) is on the hard drive.
But...
If a customer wants to perform a clean-install upgrade (for lack of a
better term) with a Retail XP Pro upgrade disk, then he/she needs to
obtain a generic OEM insallation disk. THAT'S what I had wanted to say
before!
Or can you *borrow* a full XP-Home, Windows 2000 or Windowsw NT disk from
somewhere (either in full or upgrade versions). You can then do a clean
install. You don't need to install the dorrowed OS, just show XP-Pro the
disk when it asks for it.
.
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