Winxp home --> Pro, help needed DESPERATLY!

OzWineDude · 07-31-2006, 08:44 PM

Hey guys, would like to say long time listener first time caller but it just aint so...

Am just about to kill a perfectly good computer and am hoping I dont have to..

Have an IBM thinkcentre, specs shouldnt matter, pentium 4 anyways, and it has xp home on it which has been de-registered. I have xp pro and want to put that on so have tried both a boot disk as well as trying to get it to boot from my xp cd.

boot disk loads fine, and installs a cd driver but when it comes to the crunch it doesnt recognise my HDD

booting from cd just loads the de-registered XP home...

Am seriously at my wits end with this, am kinda tech savvy but have had absolutely no luck at all with xp... thinkin of goin back to the good old days of '98

any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers!
OzWineDude
(yup, I make wine)

**kodi** · 07-31-2006, 10:54 PM

Set your BIOS to boot from CD-first,floppy-second ,and hardrive-third,put your set up disk in the CD and reboot and it should then boot from your XP cd setup disk.

sinclair_tm · 07-31-2006, 11:13 PM

also, lets move this to the win xp section where windows users can help you

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now for my 2 bits. is it perhaps a sata or scsi drive? if so, you must load the drivers in the xp installer before it will see the drive. also maybe because its not a registered copy of home, it won't let you upgrade to pro?

07-31-2006, 08:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
OzWineDude Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1 OS: 98	Winxp home --> Pro, help needed DESPERATLY! Hey guys, would like to say long time listener first time caller but it just aint so... Am just about to kill a perfectly good computer and am hoping I dont have to.. Have an IBM thinkcentre, specs shouldnt matter, pentium 4 anyways, and it has xp home on it which has been de-registered. I have xp pro and want to put that on so have tried both a boot disk as well as trying to get it to boot from my xp cd. boot disk loads fine, and installs a cd driver but when it comes to the crunch it doesnt recognise my HDD booting from cd just loads the de-registered XP home... Am seriously at my wits end with this, am kinda tech savvy but have had absolutely no luck at all with xp... thinkin of goin back to the good old days of '98 any help at all would be greatly appreciated! Cheers! OzWineDude (yup, I make wine)

07-31-2006, 10:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 7,396 OS: Windows 7-Ultimate 64 Bit My System	Set your BIOS to boot from CD-first,floppy-second ,and hardrive-third,put your set up disk in the CD and reboot and it should then boot from your XP cd setup disk. __________________ Brian