Re: Upgrade xp Getting legal

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 19:56:33 -0600

Greetings --

  The only way to change from WinXP Pro to WinXP Home is to
format the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade path
or technique.

    Simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as
part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the
order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

Bruce Chambers 

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"Frank" <stratster68@IHATESPAMworldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:O4YjgVEZEHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have a friend, yes, it really is a friend, whom I have finally
convinced
> that he needs to get legal with xp. He has the corp illegal version.
He only
> needs xp home. I was going to walk him through a repair upgrade so
he
> doesn't have to reinstall all his programs etc. He is not too PC
literate.
> Will the repair upgrade work and remove the illegal version? I have
done the
> repair upgrade quite a few times and it always worked well, but
never to a
> system with an illegal version. Any thoughts or experience?
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>

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