XP Pro and Home Together?

[webdev17]

My laptop is currently running XP Home. For a project I'm working on in one of my grad classes, I need to have XP Professional. Is it possible to run both operating systems on the same PC? If so, how would I do that? I really don't know a whole lot about operating systems. Thanks!

 

[vacunita]

It is possible to run both in the same PC. It's Called a Dual Booting PC.

Ideally you would need to create a Separate partition to install Pro onto.

But what exactly do you need Pro for. Other than the ability to Join a domain in Pro. Home and Pro are basically the same.



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[webdev17]

I'm in the process of creating two websites. I was under the impression that some of the software I needed to use would not run on Home, but maybe I am wrong. This is what I need to do:

Create and e-commerce website that can query a database to store customer login information and shopping cart information.

Create a website for a photographer that has password protected pages which only specific customers can view.

The tools that I am hoping to use are:
Eclipse
MySQL
Tomcat

Our university provides a server for the e-commerce project. I am still unsure what server the photography website will be using.

Thanks for the help!

 

[vacunita]

I think they main concern for the E-commerce webiste, would be that Home does not come bundled with a webserver. And is a bit of a Pain to install IIS on. However it can be done, and if it causes too muhc trouble, there are plenty of webserver alternatives, that would install just fine. And seeing as you are going to be using Tomcat i suggest you look into installing the Apache webserver.

MYSQL will surely run fine on Home. and Eclipse should have no problems.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[Ploper001]

All software that runs on "Windows XP" will run on all common versions of Windows XP (Pro, Home, N, MCE etc.).

The only difference is the core operating system features.

 

[linney]

You could just upgrade your XP Home to XP Pro.

Home and Pro will dual boot if you have room to set that up.

How To Create a Multiple-Boot System in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306559&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

You can do a Parallel install with XP Home of XP Pro. Don't install any unnecessary programs just some virus scanners, keep the parallel installation as simple as possible.

See the paragraph in this article.

"To install Windows XP to a new folder (to perform a parallel installation):"

How to install or upgrade to Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

You may be able to look at using a Virtual PC of some sort but would have to make sure that XP Home can run the Virtual PC (some versions may not work on XP Home).

 

[webdev17]

It would definitely be best if I could just stick with Home. Do you know of any good sites that reference how to install IIS on Home? Thanks.

 

[linney]

INFO: Personal Web server is not included with Windows XP Home Edition

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q304197

Running IIS on Windows XP Home Edition?

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm

Can I have an IIS on XP Home Edition?

http://www.devhood.com/messages/message_view-2.aspx?thread_id=27920

 

[strella]

Probably WAMP works fine on XP Home because Apache, MySQL and PHP and perl worked fine on Win 9x.

I have WAMP running on Home now.

Dunno about Eclipse and Tomcat.

Why not google on WAMP, eclipse, tomcat and "XP" and see how far you get installing on Home? I think all come with binary installs, WAMP does.