lost access to all programs after XP Home installed on same partition as XP Pro
Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 11:47 am
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Posted by Jean
(10 messages posted)
I'm trying to set up a legitimate OS on a friend's computer. He originally installed
a bootleg copy of XP Pro over his OEM installed XP Home. He couldn't activate XP
Pro and asked me to put the original, legit XP Home back on. XP Pro would not let
anyone log in until activated. So, I installed XP Home on the same partition in
a different folder (yeah, I know that wasn't smart but I didn't want to lose all
his data.) I can get it to boot to Home but can't open any of the programs that
were under XP Pro. They are still on the drive when I check it. Is there any way
to get the programs recognized by XP Home? Thanks for any help you can provide.
I'm hoping I don't have to go back & do a clean install as right now I have no way
to back up his data and I don't have info for all of the software that's loaded in
his computer.
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