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by adr1817

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I have a Windows XP home edition O/S and I would like to upgrade to Professional. This is my first time using XP as an O/S. I tried doing an fdisk but it seems it would not let me do it. Is there any other way to upgrade? Thanks in advance!

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by dmiles

Windows XP is a bootable cd,insert in cd drive and setup will begin,you can then choose to upgrade or click on down arrow and choose to do a clean install,if using an upgrade cd of XP Pro,then you will need the home edition installed on your drive

by thechas

You can boot up into Windows, and insert the XP Pro CD.
It will then install Pro as an upgrade to Home.

If you want a clean install, you need to boot from a floppy and run fdisk from there.
I use a W98 startup disk.
If you drive is a NTFS volume, from fdisk, delete the NON-DOS partition.

Exit fdisk, and boot from the XP CD.
Set up the drive as desired when prompted.

Chas

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