Can I get back to XP Home Edition

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  reinkens wrote:

  I have an HP Pavilion and apparently upgraded to a inappropriate XP Pro edition soon after I got the PC in 2004. I have the COA showing the original info: Windows XP Home Edition HP Can I get back to the original XP Home installation? Thank you! Kirk

  HP Pavilions that ship with Microsoft Windows XP do
  not come with Recovery CDs. Instead, they use a hidden
  space (partition) on the hard drive to store the recovery
  information.

  Read the following article thoroughly, then follow
  the steps outlined to perform a "destructive"
  recovery operation. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07145&product=71013&dlc=en&lang=en

  Obtaining HP Recovery CDs http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?product=71013&lang=en&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=bph07143

   

  Thursday, September 7, 2006 2:47 AM

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