upgrading from ME to XP Home

I'm trying to upgrade to Windows XP Home and got a message
that it could not upgrade to XP Home is this real or I'm I
over looking something?

It's giving me the option to do a new install but I do not
want to lose my apps and data on the hard drive. If I go
to the next step will I wipe out everthing on the drive?

Thank you for your help

George

George,

What is the exact error message you are seeing? Win Me should be able to
upgrade to both XP Home and XP Pro without the need to clean install or
multi-boot so something must be stopping it. What did the XP Upgrade
Advisor report when you ran it? Have you acted on all its
recommendations?

BTW since you are upgrading to XP rather than to Win Me it would probably
be better if you were to post to a newsgroup supporting XP than one
supporting Win Me.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



George wrote:

I'm trying to upgrade to Windows XP Home and got a message
that it could not upgrade to XP Home is this real or I'm I
over looking something?

It's giving me the option to do a new install but I do not
want to lose my apps and data on the hard drive. If I go
to the next step will I wipe out everthing on the drive?

Thank you for your help

George

I suspect a disk-space problem - it's one circumstance where the Installer
may (try to) insist on a clean install.

George - how much free space is there on your C: drive/partition? - how many
drives do you have?

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"Mike M" wrote in message
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George,

What is the exact error message you are seeing? Win Me should be able to
upgrade to both XP Home and XP Pro without the need to clean install or
multi-boot so something must be stopping it. What did the XP Upgrade
Advisor report when you ran it? Have you acted on all its
recommendations?

BTW since you are upgrading to XP rather than to Win Me it would probably
be better if you were to post to a newsgroup supporting XP than one
supporting Win Me.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



George wrote:

I'm trying to upgrade to Windows XP Home and got a message
that it could not upgrade to XP Home is this real or I'm I
over looking something?

It's giving me the option to do a new install but I do not
want to lose my apps and data on the hard drive. If I go
to the next step will I wipe out everthing on the drive?

Thank you for your help

George

Thanks Noel. Hadn't thought of lack of free space being the cause of the
problem and would have hoped that the XP installer would have provided
some form of informative message. At least the SP2 installer does as I've
hit that barrier a number of times.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Noel Paton wrote:

I suspect a disk-space problem - it's one circumstance where the
Installer may (try to) insist on a clean install.

George - how much free space is there on your C: drive/partition? -
how many drives do you have?