I had posted a question back on 9/2/09 about upgrading from Windows XP home to professional, using the Upgrade. I was told I can upgrade without a problem.
Well, here's my problem:
I go to put the windows XP professional upgrade CD in the drive, and I get the message:
Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD.
Warning: If you decide to delete the newer version of Windows that is currently installed on your computer, the files and settings cannot be recovered.
1) IT DOESNT LET ME CONTINUE. CONTINUE IS GREYED OUT.
2) NOW, reading the box, it says the upgrade is for users of MS Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT Workstation 4, or Windows 2000 Professional. IT DOESNT SHOW FOR USERS OF XP HOME!
So, I now have this upgrade CD for XP Professional. What can I do so that I can upgrade form XP Home to Professional???
Thanks,
Mark
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Rwandamark, I located your same issue here within EE. The problem is based on a system that has XP Home with SP2 (that's important) and the upgrade CD is XP Pro BUT with Service Pack 1. XP will not allow an "upgrade" if the installed service pack is higher than the one attempting to load with the upgrade OS.
In short, the answer was to uninstall the current Service Pack, reboot and attempt the upgrade as usual.
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i'd reccomend backing up all of your daa/files/documents etc and doing a fresh install of xp pro over home, rather than upgrade. if you can.
you can use this tool 'Fabs AutoBackup' to backup your main documents and files, emails from outlook, bookmarks etc automatically: http://www.fpnet.fr/index2
to do this insert your xp cd, enter the BIOS of your computer when it's starting (should tell to hit a certain key to enter Bios or setup (typically delete or f2)) and scroll along till you find the boot optons, set it to boot from CD-Rom first.
then when your machine is starting watch the screen and you'll probably get a 'press any key to boot from cd...', press any key and from there install a fresh copy of xp pro, make sure you can get all your drivers etc for your machine also, or you can back them up and restore them with a tool called 'double driver' which is free: http://www.boozet.org/dd.h
the reason it won't let you install is as David Howard stated, the service packon your machine currently is newer than the one that is on hte cd, you can eitheir make a slipstreamed cd and install sp3 into it, or just make a fresh install as advised and then update to SP3 via windows update.
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