Clarification on WinXP Home Edition Upgrade to Pro options

That could be one of the "switch over" OEM CD's. When you buy a computer
when the new OS is coming out and you get the old OS and a "voucher"
for the new os. Eventually you get the new OS "OEM" CD and I suspect
that is one of those.

gravyface wrote:

> From what I've read -- including posts by several MS MVPs -- only the Windows
> XP Pro Retail or Upgrade can upgrade from Home Edition to Pro. However, I
> just put in an OEM XP Pro CD in my Home Edition laptop and after autoplay
> launched, I was presented with an option to "Upgrade (Recommended)". I did
> not follow through (it's not for this machine) but it seems to me that what
> I've read is wrong: OEM *can* do upgrades, not just clean installs.
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These are brand-new shrink wrapped from a reputable retailer in town so I
don't think they would've shipped us something like that. Doing a bit more
digging, on the CD's I386 folder, the setupp.ini file says:

Pid=76487OEM

From what I've read, this is correct for a SP2 OEM CD (an upgrade CD would
have Pid=76488000).

Is it possible that MS decided with SP2 to allow the OEM CD to upgrade vs.
clean install only? Thoroughly confused.


"Bob I" wrote:

> That could be one of the "switch over" OEM CD's. When you buy a computer
> when the new OS is coming out and you get the old OS and a "voucher"
> for the new os. Eventually you get the new OS "OEM" CD and I suspect
> that is one of those.
>
> gravyface wrote:
>
> > From what I've read -- including posts by several MS MVPs -- only the Windows
> > XP Pro Retail or Upgrade can upgrade from Home Edition to Pro. However, I
> > just put in an OEM XP Pro CD in my Home Edition laptop and after autoplay
> > launched, I was presented with an option to "Upgrade (Recommended)". I did
> > not follow through (it's not for this machine) but it seems to me that what
> > I've read is wrong: OEM *can* do upgrades, not just clean installs.
>
>
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You would have to ask the retailer. A "true" OEM CD from MS, isn't going
to do an upgrade.

gravyface wrote:

> These are brand-new shrink wrapped from a reputable retailer in town so I
> don't think they would've shipped us something like that. Doing a bit more
> digging, on the CD's I386 folder, the setupp.ini file says:
>
> Pid=76487OEM
>
> From what I've read, this is correct for a SP2 OEM CD (an upgrade CD would
> have Pid=76488000).
>
> Is it possible that MS decided with SP2 to allow the OEM CD to upgrade vs.
> clean install only? Thoroughly confused.
>
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>That could be one of the "switch over" OEM CD's. When you buy a computer
>> when the new OS is coming out and you get the old OS and a "voucher"
>>for the new os. Eventually you get the new OS "OEM" CD and I suspect
>>that is one of those.
>>
>>gravyface wrote:
>>
>>
>>>From what I've read -- including posts by several MS MVPs -- only the Windows
>>>XP Pro Retail or Upgrade can upgrade from Home Edition to Pro. However, I
>>>just put in an OEM XP Pro CD in my Home Edition laptop and after autoplay
>>>launched, I was presented with an option to "Upgrade (Recommended)". I did
>>>not follow through (it's not for this machine) but it seems to me that what
>>>I've read is wrong: OEM *can* do upgrades, not just clean installs.
>>
>>
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