WinXp Help Needed

[nick]

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Hi I need help I have win xp pro on my computer and it has problems i just
bought win xp home edition i want to enable cdrom to boot from cd replace xp
pro hd with new clean hd reboot computer so the cdrom starts win xp home
setup and installs it on computer then swap out drives again and put xp home
as slave and pro as master copy files and settings from pro to home then
reswap drives to make the home edition drive the master and keep pro drive if
i ever need back up but run computer on xp home edition can this be done?? or
will i have problems?

thanx in advance
Nick

 

[Guest]

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Nick I generally don't nag people over grammatical issues but could you
re-write this with a wee bit of punctuation? I find your post very difficult
to read with comprehension. A few periods would be appropriate.

Thanks

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"nick" <nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F4D2144-F51F-47DE-B331-F6DF7A352FDB@microsoft.com...
> Hi I need help I have win xp pro on my computer and it has problems i just
> bought win xp home edition i want to enable cdrom to boot from cd replace
xp
> pro hd with new clean hd reboot computer so the cdrom starts win xp home
> setup and installs it on computer then swap out drives again and put xp
home
> as slave and pro as master copy files and settings from pro to home then
> reswap drives to make the home edition drive the master and keep pro drive
if
> i ever need back up but run computer on xp home edition can this be done??
or
> will i have problems?
>
> thanx in advance
> Nick