Re: Upgrading XP home to Pro

Personally I'd just upgrade to Pro from inside XP Home, less hassle and
takes less time. I do it all the time with Dells, Compaqs, eMachines, etc.
Some PC brands are such a pain in the neck with such a lot of extra bundled
software that I prefer to start from fresh than take the risk of it messing
something up in Pro (the one that sounds a bit like "trackard nell" is a pet
hate). In terms of recovery, you can usually just repair install using the
XP Pro disk, but you may need to use drivers from your Dell CDROMs.

That's just my opinion - others may have different experiences!

Andy

"Tom Cutting" <TomCutting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7A54208A-7631-420A-AF11-4195480DC315@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Our network consists of mainly Dell Dimension workstations, supplied by Mr
> Dell with Win XP home (from their Small Business division....). These will
> hang off the SBS but obviously not join the domain, and we have decided to
> upgrade to XP pro.
>
> Basic question is should I flatten the boxes and start afresh with XP pro,
> given that I have only Dell recovery disks for the XP home, and want to
use
> upgrade packs for the XP pro.
>
> Hope the above makes sense.
>
> Regards
>
> Tom.
>


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