Using a Dell OEM XP Pro disk to do an upgrade from Dell OEM XP

Here's the situation:

(All disks are SP2)

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Folks, Being the one who started the posting of "bad just got badder", I feel somewhat compelled to sort of summarize much of what was said in all of those 100...

One of our Dell desktops was seriously messed up with malware, viruses, etc., and we decided it would be easier to just reinstall XP Pro. However, one of my co-workers used the wrong Dell OEM disk for the reinstall: he used an XP Home OEM disk from another Dell that we own, rather than the Dell XP Pro OEM disk that came with the computer in question. He also reinstalled a huge number of applications, settings, data, etc.

I have seen it stated in many forums on the Web that an OEM XP Pro disk can not be used to do an upgrade - it can only be used to do a full install. However, I figured it wouldn't hurt to try using the Dell XP Pro OEM disk to do an upgrade from Home to Pro because the worst thing that could happen would be that it wouldn't work and we would have to start from the beginning, and the best thing that could happen would be that it would work and we wouldn't have to reinstall all the applications, settings, data, etc., all over again.

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The hardware is the same, but the base operating system and incentives are different between the E1505 and I6400. The E1505 comes with Windows...

So I started the installation on the XP Pro CD-ROM disk from within XP Home and it gave me an option to do an Upgrade install and I proceeded with that. After a rather long install and a reboot, the installation was complete. The applications all seem intact, the data is all there, under My Computer Properties it says "Windows XP Professional", I can turn off simple file sharing, etc.

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Sparky Spartacus Didn't get the Office disk with my W2K Pro pc purchased used. The original drivers disk was also missing. At least the previous...

My questions are: Is this going to be a stable, reliable, XP Pro installation? and Is there any way to test it to make sure everything is OK an XP Pro is correctly installed?

Art V.

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		Using a Dell OEM XP Pro disk to do an upgrade from Dell OEM XP Here's the situation: (All disks are SP2) A different look at Dell products and services Folks, Being the one who started the posting of "bad just got badder", I feel somewhat compelled to sort of summarize much of what was said in all of those 100... One of our Dell desktops was seriously messed up with malware, viruses, etc., and we decided it would be easier to just reinstall XP Pro. However, one of my co-workers used the wrong Dell OEM disk for the reinstall: he used an XP Home OEM disk from another Dell that we own, rather than the Dell XP Pro OEM disk that came with the computer in question. He also reinstalled a huge number of applications, settings, data, etc. I have seen it stated in many forums on the Web that an OEM XP Pro disk can not be used to do an upgrade - it can only be used to do a full install. However, I figured it wouldn't hurt to try using the Dell XP Pro OEM disk to do an upgrade from Home to Pro because the worst thing that could happen would be that it wouldn't work and we would have to start from the beginning, and the best thing that could happen would be that it would work and we wouldn't have to reinstall all the applications, settings, data, etc., all over again. E1505 = I6400 The hardware is the same, but the base operating system and incentives are different between the E1505 and I6400. The E1505 comes with Windows... So I started the installation on the XP Pro CD-ROM disk from within XP Home and it gave me an option to do an Upgrade install and I proceeded with that. After a rather long install and a reboot, the installation was complete. The applications all seem intact, the data is all there, under My Computer Properties it says "Windows XP Professional", I can turn off simple file sharing, etc. Switching Operating Systems Sparky Spartacus Didn't get the Office disk with my W2K Pro pc purchased used. The original drivers disk was also missing. At least the previous... My questions are: Is this going to be a stable, reliable, XP Pro installation? and Is there any way to test it to make sure everything is OK an XP Pro is correctly installed? Art V. List \| Previous \| Next



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