Upgrade XP home to XP Pro

[Vincent]

Is there a way that I can upgrade XP home to XP Pro. I currently using Home
on my laptop, but because of office work, I intend to get a copy of Pro to
install on my laptop. But is there any difficulties doing so? I heard ppl
said there is no direct upgrade. Thanks.

 

[Andrew E]

You can do that,install the pro cd,boot from cd,recovery,
if asked for password,press enter key,in recovery,type:
FORMAT C: /FS:ntfs
if you have trouble,enter:FORMAT /? When its thru type:
EXIT Then reboot to cd,install xp pro.This wipes out
home for clean install of pro.

 

[Vincent]

Why Format C: /FS:ntfs? If do this way, this will wrip out all the existing
stuff?
So i get the XP Pro full version, and put the CD in and just install?.... i
want to keep all the existing programs and document......

 

[noone]

Yes, use the XP Pro CD to upgrade your XP Home. It'll preserve your
existing apps, but you'll need to go out and do the Windows Updates again.
[Since you just got the PRO CD it should have SP1 included].

You might want to get the recently released "XP SP1 Roll-Up" and have that
on-hand, then you can do the roll-up as one quick local operation without
having to download all those updates. [the WinUpdate site's tool MAY be
smart enough to suggest just the roll-up on its own the first time you log
on; I'm not sure about that tho.]