Windows XP Home Installation Problem

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I had a devil of a time with a new Windows XP Home disk. I want to clean
install XP Home into my C partition drive. This partition currently contains
an old and decrepit Windows XP Pro system. I tried booting into Setup with
the XP Home disk but got Stop errors and I eventually corrupted a system file
[vgaoem.fon] which kept me from being able to boot into my current Windows XP
Pro system. When I returned to try and run Setup Repair from the XP Home
disk, I kept getting Session 3 Initialization Failures. I then tried it with
the old XP Pro disk and made it to the repair screen. That helped me restore
the corrupted system file. I would like to now install a clean copy of
Windows XP Home on my current C:\ partition. So why didn’t XP Home work for a
Setup in my old system? Think I can use it now? Any advice appreciated.

Neal Lavon
Takoma Park, MD
USA

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