Not able to upgrade XP Home to Professional!

[Rasu]

I have a new Toshiba Satellite P15-S409 that I bought a few days ago. I am trying to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro. When I run the upgrade CD, it reboots and tends to freeze before the upgrade process starts!

I did a bit of searching, and found the following related articles:

1. http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
(also: http://209.167.114.38/support/TechSu...-TSB000754.htm)

2. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;292607

The first article says that certain Toshiba Satellite models have this issue during the upgrade, and suggested that I disable certain drivers ('TOSHIBA SD Card Controller Type A', and the 'Toshiba PCI-0804 SmartMedia Host Controller'). I disabled the first one, but could not find the second entry as specified in the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers node, or anywhere else! After rebooting, the upgrade still did not proceed.

The second article says 'Microsoft does not support upgrading Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows XP Professional without SP1'. So I tried uninstalling my XP SP1a, rebooted the machine, and tried continuing with the upgrade - and yup, you guessed it - no luck here either!


What I need to know is this:
- Can I still upgrade? How do I do this?
- Every time I now rebot my laptop, I see two options before the OS loads up, one is to load the Windows XP Professional Setup, and the other is the Windows XP Home. The laptop boots by default to the Windows XP Professional Setup (which of course does not work!!). HOW DO I GET THE LAPTOP TO BOOT TO XP HOME BY DEFAULT? OR HOW DO I REMOVE THE OPTION TO BOOT TO THE XP PROFESSIONAL SETUP??


Thank you very much for your patience, and your suggestions!!




Rasu

[pam123]

Don't do an upgrade do a complete install.
Fdisk, format and install XP pro.
Have your previous copy of XP Home handy in case it ask for it to verify that you have a previous windows OS ( you could also use 93/ME/2000 ).
But, if I remember correctly, it will only ask if you're installing it on a drive with no OS.