Hi Debi, if you boot up with the XP CD in the drive you will be able to reinstall. This will be neccessary to overwrite the existing XP Pro instalat. Mike ~ one of the Moderators It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews http://www.mwn.ca/ ******* Mike's REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 1/27/2005 at 4:22 PM da_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I bought a second hand Pentium 4 that has WinXP Pro for demo installed, and I would like to install my own (legal) copy of WinXP Home, but when I try to do that (insert disc, run set-up) I get an error message about cannot install over a more currect edition. Is there a way for me to bypass this and just install my WinXP? Thanks! Debi ~*~*~*~*~ Was this forwarded to you? Want to subscribe? Send an email to 1stpickpchelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "info 1stpickpchelp" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to 1stpickpchelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to 1stpickpchelp-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~*~*~*~*~