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XP over XP Pro

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by alanbradley

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I had had so much trouble with my XP Pro, I will need to reinstall the system.
I would rather install XP home from 1 DVD than XP Pro from 9 CD backups.

Can anyone please tell me if I need to format Drive C first, or will XP Home uninstall the old system at the same time?
Thanks

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by sgt_shultz

assuming that you do, the answer is:
XP setup will give you a chance to format. Perhaps you'd like to dual boot the system? then you could have access to all your old stuff. to do that you simply let xp home install itself in the same partition as xp pro. you may need to modify the folder name (e.g. winhome) so it won't be the same folder as the xp pro install is in

by itechsolutions

If i were you I would prefer to format the C drive using the win XP installation CD. A clean format will for sure provide you with assurance of a clean environment.

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