Help! winxp Installation

[hello23518]

Hi,
I m useing winxp Home. I have two partition C and F. I want to install winxp pro and keep the the F partition.I don't know how to do it. I have some Music files and Video's in F partition.I will install winxp pro for the first time. I need your help. Thanks.

- Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM
- Put in the CD-ROM and start the installation
- When it asks which partition to install onto, just pick the one you want, more than likely "C" (If "F" is just a second partition on your main HDD, it will probably show up as "D"

[hello23518]

Thanks for the help. How can I keep or save my hardware drivers? help me Thanks.

Your best method is to just d/l them from the mfr. site and burn them to a CD.

[blubomber]

Just out of curiousity, why are you changing from winXP home to winXP Pro?

Have you tried putting the XP pro disk in your CD-ROM with XP Home up and running to see if you have an upgrade option?

[nukes]

Unless its OEM it should give you an upgrade option. If you don't want to lose data, don't format the C partition. It will detect the other version of XP and give you some choices, these speak for themselves. You CAN install into a different directory, and the device drivers are in c:\windows\system if you need them during install, rather than scavenging round for disks. Provided of course you don't delete your original install. (not sure why you wouldn't want to though)
Otherwise just download the drivers from the manufacturer, and stick them on the F partition.

Just out of curiousity, why are you changing from winXP home to winXP Pro?

XP pro has things like SMP support (probably won't apply here as nobody would install home on a dual CPU system anyway) and loads of extra config and security (lol) options. as well as support for NT/2k domains and AD.

[hello23518]

Thanks all for helping me. I have hp computer. I bought it two years ago from best buy. They didn't gave me any winxp cd. I am using same Windos xp home for two years. Now I got winxp pro. Also my computer is not working properly. Thats why I want a clean installation of winxp pro. This is my fisrt time. I don't know which company made my motherboard . I installed AIDA32 software and it says the mother board has i845 chipset model
P4B - La and company name unknown. I searched in google and i found Asus P4b-Lx not mine P4b-La. I don't know what to do . Thanks.