install xp pro with sp1 onto a comp with home and sp2

[iwantanewcomputer]

how do i do this?

 

[Zenmervolt]

FFR. F-Disk, Format, Re-Install.

ZV

 

[ElFenix]

can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

no, when you select reinstall it says it can't cause it has a newer version

 

[dartworth]

http://bootdisk.com/

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

 

[creedog]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

Yeah, a nasty way.

Anyway to the original poster, RTFM man..... RTFM....

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: creedog

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

Yeah, a nasty way.

Anyway to the original poster, RTFM man..... RTFM....

? reformat?

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: creedog

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

Yeah, a nasty way.

Anyway to the original poster, RTFM man..... RTFM....

? reformat?

dont reformat. Create another primary partition on the computer. Start computer, boot cd. choose install and install winxp on a different partition

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: creedog

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

Yeah, a nasty way.

Anyway to the original poster, RTFM man..... RTFM....

? reformat?

dont reformat. Create another primary partition on the computer. Start computer, boot cd. choose install and install winxp on a different partition

why? is this easier? I tink you can do this from the windows cd, create a new partition. I'm doing phone tech support for a computer illiterate person here

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: creedog

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

Yeah, a nasty way.

Anyway to the original poster, RTFM man..... RTFM....

? reformat?

dont reformat. Create another primary partition on the computer. Start computer, boot cd. choose install and install winxp on a different partition

why? is this easier? I tink you can do this from the windows cd, create a new partition. I'm doing phone tech support for a computer illiterate person here

Its easier because you dont have to deal with saving old data that you might lose because Windows is saying that you already have a windows partition installed.

From Microsoft:
To configure a computer containing Windows 2000 and Windows XP, review the following guidelines:

? Install each operating system on a separate drive or disk partition.

? Install Windows XP after you have installed Windows 2000.

? When you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), by default, the installation is placed on a partition on which no other operating system is located. You can specify a partition during Setup.

? Don't install Windows XP on a compressed drive unless the drive was compressed with the NTFS file system compression feature.

? On any partition where you perform a new installation of Windows XP (as opposed to an upgrade), you will need to re-install any programs, such as word processing or e-mail software, after Setup is complete.

? Install the programs used by each operating system on the partition with that system. If you want your programs to run with multiple operating systems, you need to install separate copies of the programs in each of the operating system partitions.

? If the computer is on a Windows 2000 Server domain, each installation of Windows XP on that computer must have a different computer name.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/2000xp.mspx

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

i don'tt want to save old data...shoul i just boot it, open a dos box, and type format c?

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
i don'tt want to save old data...shoul i just boot it, open a dos box, and type format c?

But what about home with sp2 ? You dont want to keep it or do you want to keep it.

Boot with a floppy, then do format c:

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

no floppy drive, don't want xp home. can't i just boot the home install, format it in a dos box, and then pop in the pro cd?

and thanks 4 helping, microsoft's site sucks, just like their os

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
no floppy drive, don't want xp home. can't i just boot the home install, format it in a dos box, and then pop in the pro cd?

and thanks 4 helping, microsoft's site sucks, just like their os

Why not just boot the pro cd. It will check for the windows install and you can delete the partition at the same point, format it and then reinstall windows on it.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
no floppy drive, don't want xp home. can't i just boot the home install, format it in a dos box, and then pop in the pro cd?

and thanks 4 helping, microsoft's site sucks, just like their os

no. you just boot to the cd, not to windows. the cd will warn you that there is a windows installed on the partition, and you have to say format or delete partition anyway.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: creedog

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: ElFenix
can't just boot from the CD and do it?

if you do that you don't even have to format. heck, you can dual boot it, not that you'd want to.

thats would be 1 way of doing the install

Yeah, a nasty way.

Anyway to the original poster, RTFM man..... RTFM....

its no slower than if you formated the drive and you don't have to back your crap up first.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
no floppy drive, don't want xp home. can't i just boot the home install, format it in a dos box, and then pop in the pro cd?

and thanks 4 helping, microsoft's site sucks, just like their os

no. you just boot to the cd, not to windows. the cd will warn you that there is a windows installed on the partition, and you have to say format or delete partition anyway.

"it says it can't install it cause there is a newer version of windows already installed"

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
no floppy drive, don't want xp home. can't i just boot the home install, format it in a dos box, and then pop in the pro cd?

and thanks 4 helping, microsoft's site sucks, just like their os

no. you just boot to the cd, not to windows. the cd will warn you that there is a windows installed on the partition, and you have to say format or delete partition anyway.

"it says it can't install it cause there is a newer version of windows already installed"

DO NOT PUT THE CD IN WINDOWS. Turn off your computer. Put the cd in. Have cd selected as primary boot device and then boot.

 

[redbeard1]

If SP2 was installed individually, uninstall it, and then install Pro. Otherwise you could create a slipstreamed XP Pro using your cd and the full file download of SP2.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: redbeard1
If SP2 was installed individually, uninstall it, and then install Pro. Otherwise you could create a slipstreamed XP Pro using your cd and the full file download of SP2.

It took this long for slipstreaming to be suggested?