Re: How to downgrade from Windows Pro to Windows Home??

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:01:20 -0700

At least give credit for switching from a pirated copy to a legit copy
if that is the case. My college implemented the same method using
HFNetChk to find unpatched computers and block them. If they found
pirated copies, they made the students buy the version they were
pirating! :) 

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Nathan McNulty
the dude wrote:
> legitimate as in a real reason or legitimate as in i have a legitimate copy 
> of win xp pro? seriously doubting the second one, nothing personal but any 
> request like this usually has to do with the vl version of win xp pro and an 
> invalid vl key that's been blacklisted so no service packs which are required 
> by your school probably.
> 
> if you're downgrading from pro to home you need to format the pro install's 
> drive and reinstall fresh or if you have a second partition that has enough 
> free space install on that and dual boot to get all your data migrated and 
> then format the pro partition
> 
> "Amy" wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi I need to downgrade from windows professional to 
>>windows home, can you help me? This is very urgent, 
>>because until i can do this, I am unable to access the 
>>school's internet server.  Thank you!!!
>>

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