I am going to be upgrading my motherboard soon. I have XP Home edition on my system. The original XP software I have is the upgrade version from Win98. This was installed about 2 years ago. I was told I'm going to have to rebuild my C drive after replacing the MOBO. I also have an OEM WinXP Pro full version I use on my laptop. My question is, after the upgrade can I do a repair from either of those instead of completely reloading XP? If so, which one and how would you suggest I procede?
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Jump to PostYou'll hopefully get additional advice from others, but I recall the following from my experience:
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From W98 you can upgrade to XP Home or XP Pro but you have to install W98 first . You can try a direct install of XP in the hope that it'll ask for …
Jump to Posti have had success with not even have to do a repair install of xp when changing a motherboard but only a couple of time ,same or similar motherboard chipset each time.
My suggestion to you would be to borrow a winxp home cd from a friend or co-worker! and …
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