xp pro upgrade install over home??

[forbirun]

Hey guys
Im curious as Im about to do this so has anyone had problems installing XP pro upgrade over top of XP Home edition?

Thanks inadvance
Forbirun

[MrElectricity]

Did it ages ago with genuine software it was no problem

[forbirun]

Ah ok cool so was this with service pack 2 or 3 installed coz I got sp3 installed and well just wondered if there were any issues regarding doing the upgrade from original but with only sp1?

[forbirun]

hmm.. I think I will remove sp3 coz I reckon thats gunna coz a hicup.

[acejas]

You should "slipstreams" your version of pro with sp3 which will giv eyou no problem

[forbirun]

nice thought there acejas but I dont have the xp pro installed. Its home adition so might be a bit difficult at this point. maybe later tho. ;=)

[Charm3d]

I'd do a clean install myself. Just copy the files you need to another HDD or a CD before you do it.

[forbirun]

thanks charm3d
But I have finished. I ended up doing a repair with there old version of home then ran sp3 and then ran the latest updates.
All done!!
Thanks everyone for your help

forbirun

[forbirun]

Well I thjought everything was rosy With my newly repaired Windows xp home but now when I try to grab all the latest updates they fail and on M$ website all of these updates will come up on the update search. You click download, the install button displays but then they display as 0kbs then fail again when I click install. Any ideas anyone?

[forbirun]

ok rang m$ and they sent me 2 batch files
WinUPSecure.bat
and
Autoupdate.bat
Problem now fixed!
If anyone has the same errors just google the files.. there easy to find

ps. run WinUPSecure.bat
and then run Autoupdate.bat