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hi all
I have a sony laptop with xphome preinstalled and need to upgrade to
xppro for work reasons.I have a genuine xppro disk and fancy sticky label !!
but it is a SP1 version whilst laptop is SP2 ,when I try to upgrade laptop
it tells me it is wrong version of windows .e.g. sp1.
It was suggested to slipstream my xpdisk and sp2 which I have done but
the new disk installation refuses to accept my original disks s/n .

any help would be appreciated Thanks ...Chris

In news:r_2Pf.71659$,
chris spewed forth:
> hi all
> I have a sony laptop with xphome preinstalled and need to upgrade
> to xppro for work reasons.I have a genuine xppro disk and fancy
> sticky label !! but it is a SP1 version whilst laptop is SP2 ,when I
> try to upgrade laptop it tells me it is wrong version of windows
> .e.g. sp1. It was suggested to slipstream my xpdisk and sp2 which
> I have done but the new disk installation refuses to accept my original
> disks s/n .
>
> any help would be appreciated Thanks ...Chris

You probably need an XP Pro upgrade CD with an upgrade activation key.

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"chris" <> wrote in message
news:r_2Pf.71659$...
> hi all
> I have a sony laptop with xphome preinstalled and need to upgrade to
> xppro for work reasons.I have a genuine xppro disk and fancy sticky label
> !! but it is a SP1 version whilst laptop is SP2 ,when I try to upgrade
> laptop it tells me it is wrong version of windows .e.g. sp1.
> It was suggested to slipstream my xpdisk and sp2 which I have done but
> the new disk installation refuses to accept my original disks s/n .
>
> any help would be appreciated Thanks ...Chris
>

You may not be able to upgrade from home to pro.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ng/matrix.mspx

D

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Dingus spewed forth:
> "chris" <> wrote in message
> news:r_2Pf.71659$...
>> hi all
>> I have a sony laptop with xphome preinstalled and need to upgrade
>> to xppro for work reasons.I have a genuine xppro disk and fancy
>> sticky label !! but it is a SP1 version whilst laptop is SP2 ,when I
>> try to upgrade laptop it tells me it is wrong version of windows
>> .e.g. sp1. It was suggested to slipstream my xpdisk and sp2 which
>> I have done but the new disk installation refuses to accept my
>> original disks s/n . any help would be appreciated Thanks ...Chris
>>
>
> You may not be able to upgrade from home to pro.
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...ng/matrix.mspx
>
> D

Actually, that chart says that YES you can upgrade from Home to Pro. It does
indicate that exceptions may exist with volume licensed versions. But I've
never seen a volume license version of Home.

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chris wrote:

> hi all
> I have a sony laptop with xphome preinstalled and need to upgrade to
> xppro for work reasons.I have a genuine xppro disk and fancy sticky label
> !! but it is a SP1 version whilst laptop is SP2 ,when I try to upgrade
> laptop it tells me it is wrong version of windows .e.g. sp1.
> It was suggested to slipstream my xpdisk and sp2 which I have done but
> the new disk installation refuses to accept my original disks s/n .
>
Yes ... XPPro uses different serial numbers and you also will need to
reactivate it.
Now what's the meaning of "genuine", and isn't there a serial number?

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On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:47:51 +0000, chris wrote:

> hi all
> I have a sony laptop with xphome preinstalled and need to upgrade to
> xppro for work reasons.I have a genuine xppro disk and fancy sticky label !!
> but it is a SP1 version whilst laptop is SP2 ,when I try to upgrade laptop
> it tells me it is wrong version of windows .e.g. sp1.
> It was suggested to slipstream my xpdisk and sp2 which I have done but
> the new disk installation refuses to accept my original disks s/n .
>
> any help would be appreciated Thanks ...Chris

Have your boss buy a new XPPro CD with SP2 and call Microsoft if you have
upgrade problems.

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