MSDNA: Upgade from xp home to professional via download fr..

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Unless it was specifically an upgrade version, yes you would have to
uninstall Home.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"uwstudentch" <uwstudentch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have XP Home with SP2 on my Toshiba laptop, I downloaded XP Professional
> from my schools MSDNA site. My download timed out but I have the icon on
> my
> desktop. When I try to run it I get a message saying from unknown
> publisher,
> but I run it anyway, and still no action of it running. Do I need to
> uninstall Home first? Or any other ideas?
> Thanks so much

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Hi,

What type of upgrade were you attempting? Were you just downloading the
image file for burning to CD, or were you trying to run it directly from the
download center? You should always do the former, never the latter. I would
suggest you delete what you have, clear the \temp folders on the system,
then start fresh. Make sure the version you download also has SP2, as you
will not be able to upgrade with anything lower without first uninstalling
SP2 from the XP Home system.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"uwstudentch" <uwstudentch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90799BDA-DBC5-4B93-B80A-C4215423EB20@microsoft.com...
>I have XP Home with SP2 on my Toshiba laptop, I downloaded XP Professional
> from my schools MSDNA site. My download timed out but I have the icon on
> my
> desktop. When I try to run it I get a message saying from unknown
> publisher,
> but I run it anyway, and still no action of it running. Do I need to
> uninstall Home first? Or any other ideas?
> Thanks so much