XP -> W2K Prof. - how do I?

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16 January 2004, 06:43 PM

dowser

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Hi All,

Got an XP Home PC, want to upgrade to W2K Professional. XP thinks differently and considers this a downgrade - it disables the setup.exe from the CD automatically because it detects an "older version of operating system"

B*stard MS! How do I get around this? The CD I have cannot be launched from DOS, so a W98 startup disk is no good.

Thanks, Richard

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16 January 2004, 06:44 PM

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Use the Windows 2000 Boot Disks?

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16 January 2004, 06:45 PM

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Boot off the W2k CD?

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16 January 2004, 07:00 PM

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Thanks - I'm making boot disks after finding 4 floppies.

Richard

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16 January 2004, 08:24 PM

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Install from the 4x boot floppy is painfully slow - bettet to boot from the CD if you can.

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17 January 2004, 03:06 AM

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Boot off the W2k CD?

absolutley right! Shove the CD in your CD drive and reboot... look carefully for the prompt during startup to boot from floppy, press appropriate key!

why do you want to go XP home to Win2k pro? Presumably you want to join the PC to a domain and happen to have a licence spare?