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XP Home to XP Pro....help

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BuckeyeNation27

BuckeyeNation27

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I'm running XP Home on my laptop. I want to play with Microsoft SQL Server, and a tutorial I found online said I need to have IIS (internet information services) installed. After doing some research, it seems that XP Home doesn't have this....but there's an annoying and involved work around that includes getting a Windows 2000 CD. If I had a Windows 2000 CD, that would be fine and dandy, but I don't. So if I'm going to be getting another Windows CD from somebody, I might as well get an XP Pro CD, right? Because apparently IIS is available on XP Pro.

So I downloaded and burned an image of an XP Pro CD onto a DVD and I have a CD Key. I went to install this on a junker computer so I don't fuck anything up on my laptop....and of course it won't boot from my burnt DVD. I can run it from my DVD burner, but obviously I can't boot from that.

So the question I have is, how much damage can I do to my laptop if I install XP Pro over XP Home......or is there an easier way outside of finding a real XP Pro CD and installing it on the junker? I tried installing Pro over Home on the junker, and it froze. Now whenever I start that up, it asks me which OS I want to start up with. I do not want that to happen on my laptop. All I really want is to have IIS available to me.

I guess if it comes down to it, I can take my junker in to a computer store and have them put Pro on (I know the guy that owns the place, so they could do it for me when they get a chance). But I was hoping to get into this SQL Server stuff rather quickly.

Thoughts?
 
BuckeyeNation27;1035947; said:
I'm running XP Home on my laptop. I want to play with Microsoft SQL Server, and a tutorial I found online said I need to have IIS (internet information services) installed. After doing some research, it seems that XP Home doesn't have this....but there's an annoying and involved work around that includes getting a Windows 2000 CD. If I had a Windows 2000 CD, that would be fine and dandy, but I don't. So if I'm going to be getting another Windows CD from somebody, I might as well get an XP Pro CD, right? Because apparently IIS is available on XP Pro.

So I downloaded and burned an image of an XP Pro CD onto a DVD and I have a CD Key. I went to install this on a junker computer so I don't fuck anything up on my laptop....and of course it won't boot from my burnt DVD. I can run it from my DVD burner, but obviously I can't boot from that.

So the question I have is, how much damage can I do to my laptop if I install XP Pro over XP Home......or is there an easier way outside of finding a real XP Pro CD and installing it on the junker? I tried installing Pro over Home on the junker, and it froze. Now whenever I start that up, it asks me which OS I want to start up with. I do not want that to happen on my laptop. All I really want is to have IIS available to me.

I guess if it comes down to it, I can take my junker in to a computer store and have them put Pro on (I know the guy that owns the place, so they could do it for me when they get a chance). But I was hoping to get into this SQL Server stuff rather quickly.

Thoughts?
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I did an upgrade install on a laptop this way last week without an issue. I didnt let the installer connect to the internet for new drivers as I have had issues with the downloaded files screwing up the install. However, I think a flawed upgrade is random, with no sure way of avoiding it... For some reason the installer is very sensitive.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1036734; said:
You don't have any issues now that you have XP Pro?
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You *should* not have any issues, but I would encourage you consider baking everything up from the laptop and just biting the bullet and doing a full wipe and install from scratch so that you can switch from FAT32 to NTFS since you're going to XP Pro.

Also, unless you're developing specifically for Microsoft-centric applications, you could alternately download Apache 2.2.6 for Win32 and run MySQL and PHP.
 
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thanks dryden (and kartaron). I'm not going to wipe my laptop.....i finally got it how i like it. :p

I think I'll see if the computer store will lend me an XP Pro CD. shockingly, the one I burnt doesn't work.
 
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