I broke my Win XP home edition and can't use my XP Pro upgrade CD!! HELP!!

Hello,
I'm in the middle of moving right now. I cracked my original XP Home edition CD. The upgrade copy of XP Pro (Which I bought off of Amazon for $179) says it can't identify that there was an operating system before. That's because I bought a new Hard Drive because my old one crapped out.

Now I'm stuck and can't upgrade my system...UGH! please help me out.

I should be able to use someone else's full version XP Home, (Or Win 2000, or Win ME, or Win 98, Win 95, Win NT...) right just for the verification part?

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Yeah borrow like 98 or me and then use your upgrade disk. Or if you have a old HDD you could put it in as master and let windows detect the older os then just pick your other HDD as the instilltion one. Though I am not even sure if xp install lets you pick a slave to install on. So yeah just do first way haha.

you can install on a slave drive. I've installed Windows XP Pro on anything from F: to Q:, just cause I could.