XP PRO ( Full ), upgrade XP home?

[bjc112]

Without issue?

I heard a few people have had some issues doing that... I would like to avoid a clean install.

Thanks

Bryan!

 

[EyeMWing]

Should be fine, as far as upgrade installs do. On the whole, they're very unreliable thoguh.

 

[bjc112]

Well i know upgrades can be a little shaky, however.. Going from XP home to PRO , both being NTFS i didn't think i would have issues..

I'm still wondering as i have heard a FULL version of XP pro has problems upgrading Home... Which struck me as odd..

LMK..

Thanks

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: bjc112
Well i know upgrades can be a little shaky, however.. Going from XP home to PRO , both being NTFS i didn't think i would have issues..

I'm still wondering as i have heard a FULL version of XP pro has problems upgrading Home... Which struck me as odd..

LMK..

Thanks

The only difference between the full version and the upgrade version is that the full version is bootable so as to be able to install on a computer with no (or an incompatible) OS. Their upgrade functionality is the same, they both archive the old version and then replace all files and reset all OS-related registry entries to factory settings.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: bjc112
Well i know upgrades can be a little shaky, however.. Going from XP home to PRO , both being NTFS i didn't think i would have issues..

I'm still wondering as i have heard a FULL version of XP pro has problems upgrading Home... Which struck me as odd..

LMK..

Thanks

The only difference between the full version and the upgrade version is that the full version is bootable so as to be able to install on a computer with no (or an incompatible) OS. Their upgrade functionality is the same, they both archive the old version and then replace all files and reset all OS-related registry entries to factory settings.

upgrade is bootable on even a raw harddrive

 

[BillGates]

Upgrade to Win2k

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Upgrade to Win2k

Well i have 2k but would rather put XP on here for driver purposes ( older laptop )...

So hopefully all goes well and i can avoid a loss of data or reformatting...

 

[Abhi]

Shouldn't be a problem..

 

[OZEE]

I've never had problems with that upgrade...

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

backup your most important stuff first. don't want to kick yourself later.

 

[FoBoT]

why?

you need to attach to a domain?

 

[TheToOTaLL]

Not a problem. I've done it before, with Retail & OEM full version discs.

 

[bjc112]

Thanks for the replies all.