Upgrade Question

[Chris]

I want to upgrade NT to XP. If I do a clean install, can
I upgrade to XP home, instead of XP professional?

[Dan DeStefano]

not if you are using the retail upgrade disk. you cannot upgrade from nt4
wks to xphome with the retail upgrade disk. however, if you have a win98/se
disk, you can use the xp upgrade disk to install onto the same machine,
using the 98 disk for verification; you will keep your data, but have to
reinstall all programs and such.

best thing to do, as long as you have a 98 disk, would be to backup your
entire machine and format/install xp on your hdd - pristine installations
are always better than upgrades and clean installs/reinstalls, in my
opinion.

Dan DeStefano


"Chris" > wrote in message
...
> I want to upgrade NT to XP. If I do a clean install, can
> I upgrade to XP home, instead of XP professional?

[Ken Blake]

In , Chris wrote:

> I want to upgrade NT to XP. If I do a clean install, can
> I upgrade to XP home, instead of XP professional?


You need a qualifying previous operating system. NT qualifies for
XP Professional, but not XP Home.

But if you also own a Windows 95, 98, 98SE, or Me CD, you can use
that as proof of ownership and do a clean installation.

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Ken Blake
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[Dan DeStefano]

actually, you cannot upgrade to xp from win95:
http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/matrix.asp

Dan DeStefano


"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
...
> In , Chris wrote:
>
> > I want to upgrade NT to XP. If I do a clean install, can
> > I upgrade to XP home, instead of XP professional?
>
>
> You need a qualifying previous operating system. NT qualifies for
> XP Professional, but not XP Home.
>
> But if you also own a Windows 95, 98, 98SE, or Me CD, you can use
> that as proof of ownership and do a clean installation.
>
> --
> Ken Blake
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>

[Ken Blake]

In , Dan DeStefano wrote:

> actually, you cannot upgrade to xp from win95:
>
http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/matrix.asp


Sorry, that's not correct. Although it's true that you can't
upgrade to XP over the top of Windows 95, you *can* use a Windows
95 CD as proof of ownership of a previous Qualifying version when
doing a clean installation, as I said.

Whether Microsoft meant for this to work this way or not, I don't
know for sure (I suspect not), but that's the way it does work.

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Ken Blake
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> "Ken Blake" > wrote in
message
> ...
>> In , Chris wrote:
>>
>>> I want to upgrade NT to XP. If I do a clean install, can
>>> I upgrade to XP home, instead of XP professional?
>>
>>
>> You need a qualifying previous operating system. NT qualifies
for
>> XP Professional, but not XP Home.
>>
>> But if you also own a Windows 95, 98, 98SE, or Me CD, you can
use
>> that as proof of ownership and do a clean installation.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake
>> Please reply to the newsgroup