It depends entirely on which WXP Professional Disk it is... But in most cases, the answer is no. You must have the full WXP Pro disk... We would need to hae the information on the product ID sticker that accompanied the disk.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> wrote: > I have purchased (at MIT Swap Meet :) WXP Pro > CD and plan to install over WXP Home (which > has crashed 'unable to recover hive' or some > such thing) on wifie's Acer. If I install > from CD on C:, will I lose wifie's data, or > will that remain? > > Also, is there a way I can boot from the > WXP CD before the install, so as to xcopy > all her data files over to a thumb drive, > before the install? (Just in case some > thing goes wrong.) Or can I boot from a > W2K disk? (Will that read NTFS?) > > Although I don't enjoy this, I welcome the > practice because one day one of my TPs will > crash too > > Tks for all help > Jeffrey Race > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > -- * * ** Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. . .. ... .... ...... ...... ........ Steve Jobs* ******* _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
