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Question

Need help switching XP versions

by Mar 19, 2012 8:43AM PDT

Can anyone walk me through or provide a link to switching XP versions? At the moment, my laptop has XP Pro (from '02) installed.

But I have a disc ready to install a later version of XP.
Do I have to uninstall the old one 1st? Just pop the new disc in?

Thanks for any help.

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What later version could that be?
by Steven Haninger Mar 19, 2012 6:49PM PDT

There was a Pro 32 bit and a Pro 64 bit. There were OEM, retail and VL issues but those didn't differ in operation. I wonder if you're talking about some service pak level. The last was SP-3. If that's what you want, you download the service pak and install that by itself. Of course there have been numerous updates since SP-3 was released so the whole process will take some time.

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I agree with Steven
by Forum moderator Mar 20, 2012 7:06AM PDT

There is no later version of XP Pro, so can you tell us what disk you have?

Mark

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