Want to repair XP Pro with XP Home upgrade

[akira04]

My system has been hosed for the past couple of months- It crashes suddenly when I defrag, when I run an AD-aware scan, when I run a Norton virus scan, sometimes when I open large files, and now it is just doing random crashes. I've been trying to find any solution to avoid having to reinstall XP but it looks like I will just have to.

Problem is I lost my XP pro disk! I do have a XP home (upgrade) disk however, is it possible to run a repair using a XP Home disk? If not, will I have to reinstall the original Windows 98 and then install the XP Home upgrade? Please advise.

 

[Empeethree]

if you have a legal and valid copy of xp pro, I believe you can order a replacement disc from microsoft fairly cheaply.

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[akira04]

yeah, I may have to do this if it is not possible to repair XP pro with XP home-

Anyone know if this is possible?

 

[gpalmer711]

This will not work, apart from anything else your CD key will not work for the Home edition. That aside, even if the key worked you would be left with the features of XP Home and not Pro.

Do you know anyone else with a Pro disk? If not and you need a replacement take a look at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326246&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[curlycord]

Other things to try first maybe are CTL/ALT/Delete and pick Task manager....lok for suspicious tasks running, if your not sure look them up here

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

You will want to delete them or do as specified in that link.

Also do a cleanup of your registry with

http://www.easydesksoftware.com/perfect.htm

or read this thread:

http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread26850-1.html

Also do a search for your on your hard drive for *.exe, if you see a .exe you dont recognize then do a search on it on the internet (the most power tool....and your enemy) to find out what it is!

Have you tried system restore?
Start/Help and support/Pick a Task/Undo changes using system restoer/Restore and pick a day....I would do this last maybe as I am not so sure it will delete bogus programs etc but should help also!

GL!

CC