trouble installing xp pro

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hi,been trying to put xp pro over home edition but disk may be faulty.it
keeps coming up fatal error and restarts but i dont want to do a recovery and
need to know if there is a way to get pc started without it going into xp pro
setup.i have files on pc that i dont want to lose.thanks

 

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In news:51D13C89-34D4-4888-8E5E-4D9585D5DD65@microsoft.com,
billymc <billymc@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> hi,been trying to put xp pro over home edition but disk may be
> faulty.it keeps coming up fatal error and restarts but i dont
> want to
> do a recovery and need to know if there is a way to get pc
> started
> without it going into xp pro setup.


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> i have files on pc that i dont
> want to lose.thanks


If you are doing an operating system upgrade and you haven't
first done a backup, you are playing with fire. That is *not* the
prudent thing to do.

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