What the heck.
I have the disk in, My box does not give me the option to boot from it.
I am used to the Cntl F9, or F11 or whatever to get to the bios. I get nothing. No options on start up.
I am trying to update to XPpro, from XPhome. When I load the disk it tells me that the home edition is newer than the pro edition. Ummmm. No. Not even the same ball park.
Can’t get this box to boot from a disk either.
How do you change the boot disk with XP?
Your title says 98, but your OP says XP. Can I assume you are talking about XP Home to XP Pro upgrade? Where did you get the XP Pro disk? It is certainly possible to have a Win XP Pro disk that is older than a Win XP Home disk.
The OP is definitely confusing. I think it translates into a question of how to access the BIOS.
The answer is usually to push “delete” or F8 during start up. Sometimes the screen that shows when that can be done is hidden. In that case, push F8 about once a second during start up. If that doesn’t work, so the same with Delete.
Once in BIOS, change the boot order so that CD is first and reboot with the CD in the drive.
Yes, I have XP home, at home(confused myself and am little pissed off). Just trying to update XPhome to XPpro.
I need IIS. That’s not included in the home edition.
I have the disks from work, I am licensed to work with these tools at home. I’ve called MS and talked to my boss about it. No problem there. I’ve got a whole stack of them. I get more every week. Hard to keep up.
I need to boot from a CD, but I can’t find the option. On startup, I don’t get the option for a control …F9 or F11… or anything. I am currently running XP home.
How do you get XP to boot from a disk, then I think I got it.
The disk I have tried to load is -----
Windows, XP Professonal Checked/Debug Build Disc 1013
OK, got there. F8
But no options give me a boot directive.
It sounds like you have the CD for Windows XP Professional Edition, and it’s designed for a clean install. I think what you need is the XP Professional Upgrade Edition CD.
OK, F8 only gets you to the WinXP boot menu.
In order to boot from CD, you might just be able to hold down F12 while booting, or you might need to go into the CMOS settings (usually by hitting Del or F2 - varies from one motherboard to the next - after switching on).
When you get into the CMOS settings, you need to enable booting from CD and make sure that the boot sequence is set to try the CD drive before the hard drive. It will probably still prompt you to confirm that you really do want to boot from CD when you start up.
I’m not sure whether the setup utility for XP Pro will install over XP Home without a clean install.
What are the options it gives you? You will be able to do it but you need to go down into the submenus until you find the right one.
F8 won’t get you into the BIOS setup, which is what you are looking for. Try tapping either the Delete key or F2 on startup (when the manufacturer’s screen is displayed). Different motherboards use different keys, but in my experience it is usually Delete or F2.
F8 does work on many motherboards. It does on mine. The fact that the OP said it did something is evidence of getting warmer.
enipla:
You may receive better assistance if you indicate the make and model of PC you are operating.
AFAIK,
Upgrading from XP Home to XP Pro is quite likely not supported.
While you may be able to legally do a fresh install of XP Pro on a C: partition already containinhg XP Home, last time I recall Microsoft had considered persons in your position to be a small enough minority that no provision was going to be made to allow you to migrate, for instance, your desktop settings, installed program registry entries, etc to the freshly installed XP Pro.
I could be wrong, as this is off of the top of my head.
If you do not need to do development work or run proprietary database/etc plugins, you may wish to solve your problem by means of installing a third-party web server compatible with XP Home or [perhaps?] running XP Pro in a virtual machine.
I would be willing to bet he got the safe boot options menu by hitting F8, not the BIOS Setup program. I will be curious to hear exactly what he saw after hitting F8.
Dell 4100. I think. They don’t put model numbers on the ouside anymore. 1 year old. Pretty good box.
2.4gz 144 gig drive. 122 open. One drive, no partitions.
I can’t get to the bios to switch the boot disk. I think I need to be able to do that to install XP Pro.
That’s what it looks like. I thought it might be an upgrade. I will wipe C:\ if I have to.
To enter the BIOS setup on a Dell 4100, you hit the Delete key at the start of the boot sequence.
On the majority of systems, hitting F8 as windows begins booting will allow a variety of boot options, sush as-
Boot from IDE
Boot from CD Rom
Boot from removable drive
Boot from network.
Mine do, anyway.
To change the boot options in the bios, you need to hit DEL, F2 or F12 on the majority of machines while it is POSTing.
If it shows a splash screen while POSTing, ESCape will usually get you out of that and allow you to enter the BIOS settings screen.
Not on this one.
Could be an 4200, 8100, or 8200 then:
It does not allow me to upgrade. It tells me that my HOME edition is newer, and it won’t overwrite it with the PRO addition. It won’t overwrite it. OK btn is greyed out. Cancel is the only option.
I don’t really care about upgrading at this point. I just want to install it. It will not install if I have XP home. Does that mean I have to burn this box to do it?
Can’t upgrade from Home to Pro? I don’t think that MS is that stupid.
From Home user to Pro? Without a full format?
Thanks for your help. It’s been a long week I just came back from a .NET class.
This is what I am trying to install. — From the green disk….
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1a, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Disk 1. 1847.1
It will not install over my XP home.
WTF?
No expert but I would think that Tablet PC edition would recognize you’re on a non tablet machine and not install.