Reinstall XP Upgrade Retail Edition
Jul 26, 2007
I know im the wrong forum but ME doesn't get looked at much anymore. I need to know this so as to reinstall XP upgrade retail edition. Thought you long timers in this forum would be able to help me. I have a full retail ver.of ME. IT comes with 2 discs. 1-OS 2-Boot floppy . MY boot floppy was erased. I can't reinstall ME without this boot floppy on an empty drive . Has anyone used anything from bootdisc.com? or any other site for this such thing. I know MS probably still has some around but try to buy one.
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Mar 14, 2008
if I upgrade my friends comp from xp home to xp pro that NONE of her data will be lost and will work EXACTLY the same as before only just PRO installed. This is because she has messed up her computer and I am going to fix it. But I do not want to do a clean install. When the system is in the boot area and asks me to install XPP do I have it do a recovery install etc?
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Aug 27, 2005
I understand the concept behind the Windows XP Upgrade Edition where you
must have an O/S already installed before you can use your Upgrade CD to
bring it up to Windows XP.But I'm thinking, there's going to be a time when you are so frustrated
with the state your computer that you want to reinstall things afresh.
As this is usually down the track, are you up the creek without a paddle
if you haven't kept your old Windows 98 CD? Or is there some way of
forcing an Upgrade CD to do a full install?
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Feb 4, 2008
I had to reformat my HD, and I could not find my XP full system disk, so I installed 2000 pro, then I used XP home edition upgrade to be able to use XP, now when it boots it shows 2 operatings systems and asks me to choose which one I want, well i just hit enter because XP is highlited, but how can I avoid this.
Also, now when I boot it gets to a screen that shows my name and asks for a password, again, I just hit enter and it goes away, and I finally get to my desktop, how to get rid of this problem
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Jul 16, 2005
I am using Windows XP Home edition. I want to use IIS and Windows XP Home edition does not include IIS. Therefore, I'm trying to upgrade from XP home edition to XP Professional. I have tried running the setup.exe from the Windows Professional CD but it gives an "error: 70077, paramater authorization failure".what should I do now to upgrade from XP home edition to XP professional?
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Sep 26, 2009
Please can some one help me with this one I am just about to throw my laptop out of the window.I had a really bad virus on my laptop the other day and have had to re-install from the original recovery disc (laptop is HP pavillion entertainment Notebook PC - HP Pavillion dv1000 - about 3.5 years old). Luckily all of the data and emails are ok. The problem is that when I bought the laptop I also bought a legitimate XP Proffessional upgards with SP2, now when I go to install this it says that the original version on the laptop is newer than the upgrade, then another message says that the upgrade function has been disbaled. Can this be enabled again and can the upgrade be installed like before without losing any data.
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Mar 15, 2006
Will the Windows XP Pro upgrade work on a computer running Windows XP Media Center Edition?
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Jan 24, 2008
I have a Dell Dimension 8200. The HD died, so I replaced it with a HD from another older Dell that had Window's 98 installed on it. I upgraded to Windows XP Home with the CD that came with the 8200. Everything works except there's no sound. There are no errors or conflicts in the device manager. I've loaded the drivers that came with the sound card and I've loaded drivers from Dell's web site. Still no sound. Mute is off.As far as I can tell, there is no on board sound.I've also loaded the chipset drivers, although this was after I finished the XP upgrade and had sound issues.I try loading SoundMax but I get an error at the end - driver not found.I've tried checking the set up (F2 when booting) to see if the sound card is disabled or if I could disable onboard sound but the only sound option I find is the PC speaker.The only other thing I've found on Dell's web site to try is to reformat the HD and start from scratch. I'd rather not do this if I don't have to.
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Dec 22, 2006
I have a perfectly good fresh install of XP. All works super...drivers, hardware, all software.You know that things not always work after a re-install.I like to upgrade my oldish mobo/cpu and then of course newer DDR2 RAM.Is there a way to make these upgrades without having to reinstall XP. I tried this before and of course XP doesn't load all new drivers automatically.I heard I can go into the XP bootup screen and do a repair.
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May 9, 2005
i got xp pro from a friend but i need to reinstall and i want my own copy. Should i get xp home upgrade, oem, or normal. my hd is formatted
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Aug 19, 2005
I need to reinstall windows home edition on a sony laptop but the delete and the F8 button do not work.
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Sep 16, 2006
I want to do a re-load of Windows XP Home Edition but I wasn't supplied with a CD when purchasing the laptop. I presume the files are pre-installed. I don't want to carry out a restore, but to re-load windows as I used to be able to do with W2K.
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Mar 4, 2007
I need to reinstall my windows XP on a new system that i am building. My old system has died and I do have a Boot CD from my "UPGRADE" version from the OLD machine. Will i be able to load the upgrade version (i have my XP Disk) from the old machine on my new machine starting with the Boot CD?
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Dec 27, 2005
I'm about to try reinstalling XP because it's been sluggish for months already, so I want to see if this will help, since I suspect a Trojan or whatever.Anyway, the reinstall disc offers 2 options:
(1) Upgrade
(2) new reinstall
If I choose upgrade, would I risk that my system would remain with its present problems? Or should I rather choose new reinstall?
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Feb 23, 2009
This came up while attempting to reinstall XP. The CD is in there, Does it just mean I should give up? The file on Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 CD is needed.Type the path where the file is located, and then click OK.
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Jun 1, 2006
Yeah I have had this Sony Vaio PCG-FRV37 labtop for almost 4 years now. I just recently discovered that my friend who helped me with installing Windows XP SP2 installed
Professional instead of Home, which came with my computer. Is there a way I can fix that? Or do I have to strip my computer clean and reinstall but with Home edition this time?
This has been a problem because I went to go do an upgrade from the Microsoft site but it said I was probably a victim of fake windows. So that's what I am more worried about because I got the windows XP program from Sony pre-loaded.
Also I dunno if this has to do with Windows or not. But my Matshita UJ-810 dvd/cd drive will not open when I click it's eject button. I have to use iTunes to open it. Also it seems to be unable to read cds.
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Apr 9, 2010
the installation key is not Valid. I have the OEM key and I want to change it. I tried the tool (KeyUpdateTool_enu.exe) to change key. but it gives an error.
Then I used the registry edit method, and it doesn't accept the OEM key.
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Nov 26, 2006
I'm looking on Newegg right now, and see that there is a Retail version of Windows and an OEM version of Windows, but yet they fail to describe what comes in each one.So, which one should I buy? The Retail or the OEM? Money isn't an issue at this moment, so if the Retail is recommended, I could get it.
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Oct 19, 2005
Does anyone know of particular advantages to the [retail] version of XP Home over an [OEM] version of XP Home?
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Feb 7, 2008
so about 6 months ago i bought a windows xp home edition retail (the one with the nice box)... im about to build a new pc e6550, 2gb ram, 8800 gts... my question is can i reuse that copy of windows that i bought? i already used it once when i installed it on my current computer
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Mar 5, 2007
What is the difference besides the price. Oem is 90.00 and retail is 199.00. Why?
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Mar 20, 2007
Whats the difference??? I just want to install an OS on my daughter's system (I'm building). There seems to be big price differences just looking at XP home. I thought I should stay with retail because I have so little expertise and thought the package would be more complete (less for me to be expected to know
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Jan 22, 2005
Currently running "98se" and want to switch up to "Windows 2000 pro.". What is the difference between the "Windows 2000 OEM" version and the "Windows 2000 Retail" version. With the "OEM" version they talk about accompanying hardware per Microsoft requirements (which may or may not work with my system)? What should I look for If buying the "OEM" version (COA etc.) "OEM" seems to be alot less expensive, but I need to know what I'm getting.
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Jul 27, 2005
Download the "Corp" version of Win XP Pro, file-sharing or torrent, and then run validation, fail, and get MS to sell you a retail copy of 1/2 price. Do the same thing, download Corp XP Pro. Burn a copy to CD on a computer it isn't install on, make up a receipt, and go to the Library and do a search of newspapers for computer shows from a couple years ago.Fill out the forms MS gives you and send in with the CD and receipt, and get MS to send you a retail copy for free. OK, I'm not really advocating anybody doing this, just trying to make a point. If someone is gonna pirate XP to begin with, what makes MS think that people won't be doing things like this? Why isn't retail XP sold at the price that is being offered to people with pirated Windows to begin with?
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Aug 1, 2005
I recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I had a retail CD of XP
pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup which includes a full reformat.
I now have XP pro up and running, but I get an annoying "dual boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this dual boot screen as XP
Home no longer exists?
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Dec 7, 2004
I currently have xp pro loaded on my computer but it was a bad install and i want to install xp home which i like a bit more. When i go to install xp home, it won't let me because it automatically assumes i want to upgrade and i can't choose a clean install. I can't boot from my cd rom so i can't go through bios.
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Jul 3, 2005
Anyone know of a good effective way of removing Intel retail thermal tape from the processor?I'm just going to remove it and replace with Arctic Silver.
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Jan 4, 2007
I need a help, I'd like to know among Windows XP users in the world, what is the percentage of windows XP home edition users and Pro. edition users?
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Oct 11, 2005
How can I upgrade windows XP home edition to windows XP professional edition
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Mar 12, 2010
I have XP Media Center Edition 2002 or 2005 (not sure which) edition on a dell desktop and I have problems with Media Edition so I'd like to go to plain XP home edition. If I buy and run the XP Home upgrade, will that work on top of MCE?
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Mar 20, 2010
I recently received a laptop that someone needs me to fix. The problem is that it seems at some point that some kind of update was interrupted during the process and the system will not load unless a windows xp professional edition disk is inserted to complete the update. I also cannot get it to start in safe mode. Unfortunately, I only have a home edition disk. Can I reformat XP pro with a home edition disk? If not, are there any other options?
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