Nee help: Upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional
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I need to run a number of things on my home computer which requires XP Professional. So I went to Best Buy ang paid for it (upgrade version, $199.99). I made sure with the support guys at the store that the version I baught should work on XP Home. I also learned that I could not return the software even if it doesn't work. But, how hard can it be? I thought. Well, the first thing I saw when I tried to install is an error message box which says it can not continue because the current OS is newer than the one on the CD. There is nothing I could do besides quitting. My XP Home has all the latest patches and even service pack 2. I deleted all the uninstall folders to make room on my disk because upgrade to XP Professional requires at least another 1.5 gigabytes. I feel so foolish. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to make this work? Thanks.[
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Seeing as you have XP SP2 on your "Home" machine, it may in fact be unable to upgrade a XP SP2 Home to a XP SP0 Pro machine. You are probably best to format your C drive and install from scratch with Pro (the upgrade will allow this, it may just ask to see the XP home CD) or maybe there is a KB article on this? Also perhaps you can make a version of your Pro CD with SP2 built into it so your XP Home machine doesn't think it is old? Chris
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Seeing as you have XP SP2 on your "Home" machine, it may in fact be unable to upgrade a XP SP2 Home to a XP SP0 Pro machine. You are probably best to format your C drive and install from scratch with Pro (the upgrade will allow this, it may just ask to see the XP home CD) or maybe there is a KB article on this? Also perhaps you can make a version of your Pro CD with SP2 built into it so your XP Home machine doesn't think it is old? Chris
Chris Ormerod wrote: You are probably best to format your C drive and install from scratch with Pro That seems to be so drastic because I never formatted my C drive before. If it still doesn't work, you will be held responsible for my suicide. ;) Chris Ormerod wrote: Also perhaps you can make a version of your Pro CD with SP2 built into it so your XP Home machine doesn't think it is old? I am hoping someone else could give me detailed information on how to do that. Thanks for your help.[
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Chris Ormerod wrote: You are probably best to format your C drive and install from scratch with Pro That seems to be so drastic because I never formatted my C drive before. If it still doesn't work, you will be held responsible for my suicide. ;) Chris Ormerod wrote: Also perhaps you can make a version of your Pro CD with SP2 built into it so your XP Home machine doesn't think it is old? I am hoping someone else could give me detailed information on how to do that. Thanks for your help.[
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I am hoping someone else could give me detailed information on how to do that. This process is known as "slipstreaming". There's a detailed explanation of it (for XP SP2) here. You can also get the Windows Ultimate Boot CD Software, which kind of automates the slipstreaming process for you. Hope that helps. :)
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I am hoping someone else could give me detailed information on how to do that. This process is known as "slipstreaming". There's a detailed explanation of it (for XP SP2) here. You can also get the Windows Ultimate Boot CD Software, which kind of automates the slipstreaming process for you. Hope that helps. :)
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Great!!! I will definitely try it. Thanks.[
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I need to run a number of things on my home computer which requires XP Professional. So I went to Best Buy ang paid for it (upgrade version, $199.99). I made sure with the support guys at the store that the version I baught should work on XP Home. I also learned that I could not return the software even if it doesn't work. But, how hard can it be? I thought. Well, the first thing I saw when I tried to install is an error message box which says it can not continue because the current OS is newer than the one on the CD. There is nothing I could do besides quitting. My XP Home has all the latest patches and even service pack 2. I deleted all the uninstall folders to make room on my disk because upgrade to XP Professional requires at least another 1.5 gigabytes. I feel so foolish. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to make this work? Thanks.[
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Something seems seriously screwed up with the upgrade path. I have a W2K Pro box that denies to upgrade to W2K3 standard with a similar message. Btw. around here the "System Builder" versions are cheapoer and have a much mroe relaxed licence. You don't get the Microsoft support calls, though.
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I am hoping someone else could give me detailed information on how to do that. This process is known as "slipstreaming". There's a detailed explanation of it (for XP SP2) here. You can also get the Windows Ultimate Boot CD Software, which kind of automates the slipstreaming process for you. Hope that helps. :)
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Sorry, David. I tried things described in both of your references without success. The first one requires copying the content of the XP CD onto the hard disk. But many files on that CD cannot be copied. I got "failed to read source file" errors when I tried copying from explorer. Then I tried copying from a command prompt, I got many different kinds of errors, one of them is "cyclic redundency check" error, another one is "same page operation" error I have no idea what it means. I can see many files are missing in the target folder. The second one uses the AutoStreamer application. There is no error, however, the generated CD image file is only about 35 mb in size. I suspect that the application ran into the same errors while copying the files but went ahead to create the output file. Anyway, I am stuck, despite the great information you provided. Suddenly I have a lot more respect for the talented system maintenance guys. :)[
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Something seems seriously screwed up with the upgrade path. I have a W2K Pro box that denies to upgrade to W2K3 standard with a similar message. Btw. around here the "System Builder" versions are cheapoer and have a much mroe relaxed licence. You don't get the Microsoft support calls, though.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist Fold With Us! || Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: Something seems seriously screwed up with the upgrade path. I have a W2K Pro box that denies to upgrade to W2K3 standard with a similar message. According to the other replies, the problem is caused by installing SP2 or other updates. I just don't understand why the stores keep selling software that is already outdated (won't work on most machines). :mad:[
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Sorry, David. I tried things described in both of your references without success. The first one requires copying the content of the XP CD onto the hard disk. But many files on that CD cannot be copied. I got "failed to read source file" errors when I tried copying from explorer. Then I tried copying from a command prompt, I got many different kinds of errors, one of them is "cyclic redundency check" error, another one is "same page operation" error I have no idea what it means. I can see many files are missing in the target folder. The second one uses the AutoStreamer application. There is no error, however, the generated CD image file is only about 35 mb in size. I suspect that the application ran into the same errors while copying the files but went ahead to create the output file. Anyway, I am stuck, despite the great information you provided. Suddenly I have a lot more respect for the talented system maintenance guys. :)[
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Xiangyang Liu wrote: The first one requires copying the content of the XP CD onto the hard disk. But many files on that CD cannot be copied. I got "failed to read source file" errors when I tried copying from explorer. Then I tried copying from a command prompt, I got many different kinds of errors, one of them is "cyclic redundency check" error, another one is "same page operation" error I have no idea what it means. I can see many files are missing in the target folder. Sounds like your CD is hosed. Check to see if the CD has any scratches or fingerprints. If you have scratches your pretty much stuffed if is just fingerprints or other such grime simply wipe with a soft cloth from the centre to the outer edge. Alternately you could buy a CD/DVD cleaner. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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peterchen wrote: Something seems seriously screwed up with the upgrade path. I have a W2K Pro box that denies to upgrade to W2K3 standard with a similar message. According to the other replies, the problem is caused by installing SP2 or other updates. I just don't understand why the stores keep selling software that is already outdated (won't work on most machines). :mad:[
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Mainly because I don't think MS have produced retail copies of SP2 yet. You might be able to fudge the XP Home install by editing the CSDVersion value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows. SP2 is 0x0200 (512), SP1 is 0x0100 (256), RTM is 0. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Xiangyang Liu wrote: The first one requires copying the content of the XP CD onto the hard disk. But many files on that CD cannot be copied. I got "failed to read source file" errors when I tried copying from explorer. Then I tried copying from a command prompt, I got many different kinds of errors, one of them is "cyclic redundency check" error, another one is "same page operation" error I have no idea what it means. I can see many files are missing in the target folder. Sounds like your CD is hosed. Check to see if the CD has any scratches or fingerprints. If you have scratches your pretty much stuffed if is just fingerprints or other such grime simply wipe with a soft cloth from the centre to the outer edge. Alternately you could buy a CD/DVD cleaner. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote: Sounds like your CD is hosed. Check to see if the CD has any scratches or fingerprints. If you have scratches your pretty much stuffed if is just fingerprints or other such grime simply wipe with a soft cloth from the centre to the outer edge. Alternately you could buy a CD/DVD cleaner. Thanks for the info. I will clean the CD and try again. A system maintenance guy at work said that Microsoft may have written corrupted data on the CD to prevent illegal copying.[
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Mainly because I don't think MS have produced retail copies of SP2 yet. You might be able to fudge the XP Home install by editing the CSDVersion value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows. SP2 is 0x0200 (512), SP1 is 0x0100 (256), RTM is 0. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Mike Dimmick wrote: You might be able to fudge the XP Home install by editing the CSDVersion value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows. SP2 is 0x0200 (512), SP1 is 0x0100 (256), RTM is 0. That's another great idea. :) Thanks. P.S. I will let you know if it works.[
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