Re: Xp Home to XP Pro on Laptop

From: Danny Sanders (Danny.Sanders_at_NO-SPAMcpcmed.org)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:17:45 -0700

You might check with Acer. I had a Sony laptop with XP home that I formatted
and installed a retail copy of XP pro on and had problems with the
"function" keys. It could only be solved by using the restore disk to get it
back to the way I bought it then I had to buy Sony's version of XP pro to
upgrade it with

You might be able to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro using a retail version,
depending on the laptop. In fact it may be better. There may be some
propritary laptop drivers incorporated into your Home version that comes
with your laptop that may not be present in an retail version of XP pro.

.

I had a few Dells that worked fine with retail installations.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Freddie Clark" <fredclark@SPAM@loxinfo.co.th> wrote in message
news:#OObxaI2EHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I just bought an Acer Aspire 2025WLMi, It has XP home installed on it. I
> would like to change this to XP pro ( I have a full version not used).
> Should I just reformat and install from scratch or can I 'upgrade' using
the
> full install version. Also are there any Gotcha's in doing this on a
laptop.
>
> regards
> Freddie
>
>

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