Re: Out with Pro and back to Home

Its interesting that xppro has been installed when no partitions exist :)

"Tez" <Tez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9AFC0BFE-5048-47AE-94BB-481E24CAD747@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> I have just built a new pc and installed XP Pro (never used it before). I
> connected it to my network where all the other pc's are running XP Home.
It's
> been nothing but agro....I want to go back HOME!!! Should I format the
hard
> drive (nothing to back up yet) and do a clean install of XP Home or can I
> just install over the top of XP Pro?
>
> PS: I should mention at this point that there are no partitions on the
hard
> drive and I'm wondering if now would be a good time to create a partition
for
> the OS....how big should the partion be do you think?


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