I try to upgrade my Windows XP home to Windows XP Pro edition but I just get this message that says "Setup is inspecting your computer's Hardward configuration . . . " and it does nothing. Any help please I need my computer to finish my college assigments and I don't know what to do, any help please???
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I think it better to erase your hard drive and then upgrade with windows xp pro
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Try to get an external USB drive with a cd rom and do it from there, since XP is still running.  Also a very strong recomendation, get another copy of win xp and make sure that it has the Service Pack 2.  And if none of these work, try to get your HD out of the case and make the instalation on someone else computer, putting your HD as a slave and running the instalation on it.\n\nHope I´ve given you a guide to solving your issue.
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The best thing to do in this case is for you to reformat like the others have suggested and install a fresh copy of XP but if you have never done this it might throw you at first. With your machine on, stick in your copy of XP in then reboot. Then after it starts to reboot it will ask you "press any key to boot from CD" Press any key at this point and then wait for it to inspect your systems hardware then it will load some common drivers etc. After that it will look to see if you have any previous versions installed. When it shows you those other versions it will ask you if you want to continue installing Windows on this drive or something like that. At this point you want to get rid of the previous versions and any partitions. If you read carefully you can delete any other versions and/ or partitions and then install a fresh copy of XP. Make sure that you have gotten rid of all other OS's and partitions and if you have it will say "to install on this partition press enter" and you should see "new(raw)" and then however many MB's your drive is. At this point press enter and it will ask you "install XP NTFS or install XP NTFS(quick). Use the first one "install XP NTFS" Press enter and it will start to format the drive and then let it install XP and your all set.
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Windows Media Center is an OEM only addition to Windows XP Home or Professional. If you have been performing your updates and you try to install on top of your current install that is your problem..
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You do not need it. Hewlett Packard installs it whether you like it or not, whenever you buy one of their machines. I usually reformat the hard drives on them and reinstall Windows Xp from a Microsoft CD whenever I get a HP (or a Compaq), as it irritates the crap out of me, as well. Dell used to do that stuff, too, but they're getting better these days.
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The best thing to do is run the xp cd at startup and once it loads, delete the partition on which xp home was on. Then create a new partition in its place and install xp pro on it.
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Do you mean that you are running a pirated XP? Well, I used to have one until a month ago. Its not that bad, but there are many security lapses, of course. I am now using genuine XP Pro now, and its much better. Moreover, you cannot also get any of the new Microsoft products, like Internet Explorer 7 or Windows Defender or WMP 11. Still, if you cannot afford a genuine XP, then the pirated one is OK. By the way, a free and open source Operating System called Ubuntu is available over the net. My friend says its pretty good, and has all the basics of XP Home edition. You may like to have it.\nhttp://www.ubuntu.com/\n\nDon't do anything yourself. Hire a technician or a professional.
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Hello, \n\nOK there are two ways depending on your situation. If you have one computer and you want to wipe the Hard Disk and do a fresh install of Windows (I just did that two days ago) to get rid of all that annoying junk, slowness and even viruses then the answer is yes. You have to boot from the WinXP Pro CD. When going through the setup process some of the first options you will find are which partition you want to install XP on. At this stage there are options to format the disk. However if you just reinstall Windows you wont need to choose the Format option as the new Windows will not be able to access any of the other files and you will get a completely clean registry. and completely clean Windows.\n\nIf you have two computers and you want to format a Hard Disk of the other computer you can take out the Hard Disk and put it in the other computer as either a slave drive (The next drive in line) or just connect it to the cable where the CDRom Drive is. Disconnecting the CDRom drive. This is the IDE 2 cable. In this case you dont need to boot from a CD you just boot Windows as usual with the OLD disk now connected to the CD cable or the second plug on the cable of your main Hard Disk (slave).  When Windows boots up and you open explorer you will see an extra HD icon you didnt see before if the disk is active (usable). If its not there dont worry yet. Now got to Start > MyComputer and Right click and choose Manage. Choose Disk Management in the Computer Management Console. Youll see Disk 0 your main disk youre running Windows from and then the one you just added. Right click the newly added disk and choose format.\n\nThe second option makes it possible for MB viruses and all kinds of things to jump to your clean Windows install so if its a virus problem or suspect file or security issue, I suggest the first option. But only if everything else has failed completely, like virus scanning, adware and spyware scanning.  And remeber youll have to install software and redo all your settings again. IF and only if you can you can make a settings disk to take to the new Windows install before formatting. Choose, Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and Files and setting transfer Wizard and follow the instructions, youll be glad you did later when importing them onto the new windows install is a breeze.\n\nHope this helps in some way.\nCheers
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There should really only be XP Home Full or XP Home Upgrade.  I'm not aware of any variations on the home edition in terms of versions.  And there's no volume licensing for it, so any version of home should work unless you try to install the full version and only have an upgrade key - then you'll need a key from a previous version of Windows.
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if you saved your old settings then its just a matter of going into add remove progs and uninstalling xp and that should leave you with your old me. \n\nif you didn't then I'm afraid the only way is to format drive as you can not install an older version of windows over the top of a newer version (windows will not let you do this) no matter what way or how many times you try . \n\ni recommend you keep xp as there is no more support or security/patch updates for me.most software now being written will be for xp and vista. but at the end of the day when it gets dark its your choice.
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Must not be running windows xp...auto install...  Try inserting the CD and going to the "my computer" then the "cd" and look for an install file and/or auto run file...  good luck
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1.  Buy Windows XP Upgrade Edition (recommend Professional, but Home edition is fine).  Pro:\n\nhttp://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=477481/sort_type=bottomline\n\n2. Pop it in your CD drive and boot computer.\n\n3. Follow prompts and answer questions that come up during setup wizard (simple).\n\n\n2b.  If your computer doesn't boot from CD or prompt to hit a key to boot, then you may need to set your CD as a boot drive in BIOS.  If that happens, you'll need additional instructions.  Post here.
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Windows XP home is somewhat more advanced. It features many of the same things as Windows 98 programs. Dpending on your planned usage for the computer you will be upgrading, home or business, you may wish to upgrade to Windows XP Professional. Windows XP is easier to use if you have previous knowledge of Windows in general. You appear to have some. If you find the upgrade difficult to figure out, then it may be wise to purchase a simple book that covers Windows XP home. By the way, if you have an older pc (1997 or before) its better to just purchase a new computer. Good luck, I hope this has helped you.
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your getting lost in the details---just boot from xp and follow to the upgrade-- they are assuming everyone is as dumb as me.... sorry-lol
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You can upgrade, but you need to create a new XP Pro CD with Service Pack 2 - the process is called slipstreaming.  See:
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Why would you want to go from 2000 to 98?? Of course it costs something. XP is around 80-85 dollars unless you want to obtain it illegally which since you dont know how to install an operating system might be a pain. You can't "upgrade" from 2000 to 98. If you went from 2000 to XP you cuold upgrade (with an upgrade disk) otherwise it will format the drive and install XP (the best way for a clean install)
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Buy an authetic one from eBay.  It will be cheaper.  Instead of $300 for XP home edition, you can get it for about 80 to 90 bucks on eBay.\n\nOnce you get it, install it and you will have a clean and autheticated installation and full support from microsoft as well as your boot discs.