Slipstream the XP Professional CD up to SP3. Follow the guidelines here and then once you have the disc, follow the instructions here.
Hi all not sure if this has been asked but i have a Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop and it had XP Home on it and i wanted to put XP Pro on to i can added it to my work network. heres the problem i used the origonal XP Pro disc booted from CD and when it says "Setting up windows" in the bottom lefrt corner streight after that Blue screen of death. i cant get to the format part of the installation a few things i have tried = made sure the cd worked in another laptop , changed harddrive still the same problem, i used another Toshiba recover disc and reformated the HDD that way and mannaged to load windows up fine however for that disc we dont have a key. any ideas  please help Mike
Installing XP issues