Two Win XP Operating systems?

Question

What is the downside of installing windows xp home and windows xp pro on the same computer? Given 80Gb hard drive and 1Gb RAM?

Actually, I would like to get rid of the Xp Home edition and use the pro instead. But the Home edition has a lot of bundled software with it and other programs that I've installed myself which I don't want to lose. So what can I do?

Answer 1

No problems... at all just don't install them in Same drive... or there'll be two windows Folder.. and gets corrupted

Answer 2

XP home and XP Pro are actually the same OS One is just geared towards the home Users because it has more "media" features. XP Pro is geared towards the Businesses because of is security features and Networking features that is vacant in Home Edition. With Home Edition you cannot log onto a Domain. Only a workgroup. Out of the two Pro is the better choice.

Answer 3

No downside other than that you're using a lot of disk space.

If you don't plan to use one of them for a long period of time, you may want to consider running it in Microsoft Virtual PC instead:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

They have a 45 day trial edition. Once you're done with it, it's much easier to deinstall than an actual XP installation.

Answer 4

none really - just takes up extra disk space

more to the point - why would you want both ?
xp home is just a cut down version of xp pro

Update:
you don't need another partition, just install one version of XP into a folder that is not the default

Answer 5

There isnt a downside other than your hard drive is going to need another partition.....I would purchase another drive, set it as slave, and install one system on it.