I thought installing a copy of winXP Pro on a new HD in my DELL Dimension
3000 would be a piece of cake. It came with XP Home. I could’nt have been
more wrong. Now I know what “proprietary” really means. I discovered that
none of the drivers or utilities would work with Pro, and not wanting to
deal with DELL support, I tried, unsuccessfully, to uninstall it myself.
After not being able to uninstall, I tried loading XP Home on top of Pro.
I thought the install would give me the option to delete the partition
and format the drive. I recieved an error message stating that XP Home
could not replace XP Pro. I then installed the Recovery Console and tried
to run osuninst.exe at the command prompt, but recieved the message
“setup cannot uninstall win XP because the necessary registration
information is missing”. If anyone would care to give me hand with this,
I would be eternally greatful.
Thanks, paul H
