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A simple question; I plan to load my copy of Win XP home edition over the professional edition installed by my serviceman and subsequently found to be non- genuine. Will this work and will I lose anything?
Another day above ground is a good day
How do you plan to do this? Format? Repair install? Don't know if it would work. Usually you cannot load Home over Pro. The reverse works. I would suspect you will end up formatting the drive. In that case you would lose everything. Best to save all important data before you try any procedure.
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I agree that i have never heard of being able to install home over pro. if you did it, i would expect you are going to see some really strange and bad errors. I again agree that you should back up all your data and then reformat the drive and install home on the fresh drive.
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Why not just "Make Windows XP Genuine" ?
It's amazing what quotation marks will do for a google search ;-)
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How do I make it genuine? I own a genuine copy but it's the "home" version
Another day above ground is a good day
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Format the drive and do a fresh install of the home edition
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to make the xp pro genuine will cost you.
quote "$149 for Windows XP Professional"
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/do...
while a clean install of xp home that is genuine would cost, only the time involved to backup important docs, and a format, and install of home. and then validation using the 1-800 number that will appear when you try to validate online. at least from my experience
I've had to input the 46 digit validation ,with every pc I installed a genuine home version on. free, but why did they disable the online validation.
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It all goes back to the basic answer. There is no way to install XP Home over Pro. Home is a lower level version of XP and MS prevented Pro from being overwritten by Home. A fresh install on a newly formatted hard drive is the only option.
Richard
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"to make the xp pro genuine will cost you"
Uhhhhhhh, not if you can read between the lines & understand what I wrote in response #3
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