Home to Pro

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I have purchased a new laptp HP. It has xp Home on it and I want XP Pro for
the remote option. Can I use my OEM disk to upgrade ?

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In order to upgrade Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional,
you'll need to purchase a "Retail Version" of XP Pro. An "OEM Version" can
only be installed on a reformatted drive or partition.

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"rohit" wrote:

| I have purchased a new laptp HP. It has xp Home on it and I want XP Pro for
| the remote option. Can I use my OEM disk to upgrade ?

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"rohit" <rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have purchased a new laptp HP. It has xp Home on it and I want XP Pro for
>the remote option. Can I use my OEM disk to upgrade ?

Contact the laptop manufacturer's customer service dept. They may be
able to offer you a solution at a reasonable price.

You cannot upgrade with an OEM disk. And even if you could doing so
would probably violate the end user license agreement terms for the
OEM license and, more importantly, would probably invalidate the
warranty on your laptop.

Good luck


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