Windows XP Pro Install Over XP Media Center

[tcwinont]

Thanks in advance for any help.

I have two people in a start-up associate office that have mistakenly ordered XP Media Center Edition 2006 instead of XP Pro to be used on my local area network. Can I install Windows XP Pro over top of the XP Media Center and bring over the programs and settings already installed? I have done this before on a Toshiba that came with XP Home on it and that worked no problem. I talked to Dell about this already and they sent me at no extra change, XP Pro and a new product key but it's not a 'system restore' CD and I'd have to do everything from scratch.

 

[linney]

You'd have to do a clean install you can't upgrade Media Center to XP Pro.

You could use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to save files and settings (not programs).

Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm