Sounds like you did not upgrade and installed XP Pro in the same partition as
XP Home. I would suggest starting over and perform the installation correctly.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"ItzMeMarcio" wrote:

| I just bought a new laptop which came with XP Home Edition. I bought a retail
| copy of XP Pro with SP2. After the full installation of XP, some
| installations does not run. For example, I click on setup.exe and answer the
| necessary questions. Then the setup stay there forever. I open Task
| Manager, and it say "Running" The hard drive does not lights up. Has
| anybody seens this problem?