Installing Pro

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I have a Toshiba Satellite (laptop) with XP Home installed on it. It did not work well, so I ran the backup disks today, and it seems more stable. HOWEVER, whenever I try to install the upgrade to XP Professional I get the error message: Setup failed to locate a valid qualifying product on your machine. Then it gives me a drop down window to select the drive that the qualifying package is on (c, of course). I select the C drive and get the error messate: Error 1688. Setup unable to locate qualifying product. What am I doing wrong? I have, indeed, registered everything with MS and with Toshiba, so what is the holdup?
 
try to format your harddisk and installed new windows xp licensed. If you can try to get windows xp sp1
 
norfish said:
I have a Toshiba Satellite (laptop) with XP Home installed on it. It did
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not work well, so I ran the backup disks today, and it seems more stable.
HOWEVER, whenever I try to install the upgrade to XP Professional I get the
error message: Setup failed to locate a valid qualifying product on your
machine. Then it gives me a drop down window to select the drive that the
qualifying package is on (c, of course). I select the C drive and get the
error messate: Error 1688. Setup unable to locate qualifying product.
What am I doing wrong? I have, indeed, registered everything with MS and
with Toshiba, so what is the holdup?

I had the exact problem with a Sony Vaio laptop. The Sony proprietary
software would not allow an upgrade to XP Pro from Home. I had to boot to
the new Pro CD, format and install clean.


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A friend bought a Sony Z1VA notebook and a copy of Windows XP Pro to
upgrade the notebook from XP Home. After many unsuccessful attempts
and reading the horror stories on the 'Net, we discovered the
solution. His notebook is running XP Pro (upgraded from the F10
restore on his Sony) and all drivers and applications are running
flawlessly, including Bluetooth.

The real problem is not proprietary hardware, corrupted page files, or
the like. The problem is XP Home upgraded to SP1 and the XP Pro disk
was not SP1. We followed instructions found here
(http://www.windows-help.net/windowsxp/winxp-sp1-bootcd.html) to build
a Windows XP SP1 disk. The upgrade worked flawlessly _except_ for
Bluetooth. The Bluetooth solution is described below (from Sony's
site http://www.iq.sony.com/srvs/convers...sp?src=swupd&modelnum=PCGZ1VA&prodid=10082&q=)

1. Click the Start button, then click Search.
2. In the Search Results window, in the left pane, under What do you
want..., click All files and folders.
3. In the All or Part... box, type Q323183.
4. In the right pane, under Name, double-click the Q323183 application

After a reboot it worked 100%.

Just wanted to share this since the XP Pro upgrade seemed like a hot
topic and the solution was difficult to uncover.
 
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