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upgrading to XP
put a new computer together,got a new motherboard,processor, DDram and tower.
used the old hard drive,CDrom and floppy. formatted the hard drive and installed Windows me ,everything works good,tried to upgrade it to XP it says setup is coppying the files necessary for XP, then it says Windows is restarting your computer in 15 seconds. The computer restarts and I see the white line at the bottom of the screen filling up and then it says please wait, an tthis is as far as it goes. tried it with windows 2000 pro which priviously had on the same hard drive same thing,took the hard drive out and installed it in another computer went through the whole thing and it works , put it back in the new computer it does not work,but it is good with Windows ME and 98SE any suggestions please thank you.. |
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Try the WindowsUpdate newsgroup.
"Mel" wrote in message ... put a new computer together,got a new motherboard,processor, DDram and tower. used the old hard drive,CDrom and floppy. formatted the hard drive and installed Windows me ,everything works good,tried to upgrade it to XP it says setup is coppying the files necessary for XP, then it says Windows is restarting your computer in 15 seconds. The computer restarts and I see the white line at the bottom of the screen filling up and then it says please wait, an tthis is as far as it goes. tried it with windows 2000 pro which priviously had on the same hard drive same thing,took the hard drive out and installed it in another computer went through the whole thing and it works , put it back in the new computer it does not work,but it is good with Windows ME and 98SE any suggestions please thank you.. |
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Well just wanted to stop by and drop some information
that might help. I had the same problem when i had Windows XP. The computer did not recognized the Hard Disk. Try checking your BIOS start up settings, sometimes by simply restarting the PC a couple of times will get you in. The other thing is, do you have both WINDOWS ME and XP installed on your computer? If you have both of them installed in one computer and only running on one hard drive, you should partition the hard drive to two partitions. one partition should be formated to FAT32 (WINDOWS ME) and the other should be NTFS(WINDOWS 2000/XP) *Note that you can not access information from one partition to another* Make sure that the start up log in windows XP is correct. |
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I have no idea why you are replying to my post as I was not the person
having problems. But then again I don't really understand the relevance of what you have to say to the apparent problems experienced by the original poster. For myself I happily multi-boot as required between various operating systems including both Win Me and XP although in my case I use a third party boot manager (BING). -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] .. Juan R. wrote: Well just wanted to stop by and drop some information that might help. I had the same problem when i had Windows XP. The computer did not recognized the Hard Disk. Try checking your BIOS start up settings, sometimes by simply restarting the PC a couple of times will get you in. The other thing is, do you have both WINDOWS ME and XP installed on your computer? If you have both of them installed in one computer and only running on one hard drive, you should partition the hard drive to two partitions. one partition should be formated to FAT32 (WINDOWS ME) and the other should be NTFS(WINDOWS 2000/XP) *Note that you can not access information from one partition to another* Make sure that the start up log in windows XP is correct. |
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I have no idea what you're talking about, I don't want ot use two operating
system on my computer I just want to upgrade it to XP??????????????? "Mike M" wrote: I have no idea why you are replying to my post as I was not the person having problems. But then again I don't really understand the relevance of what you have to say to the apparent problems experienced by the original poster. For myself I happily multi-boot as required between various operating systems including both Win Me and XP although in my case I use a third party boot manager (BING). -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] .. Juan R. wrote: Well just wanted to stop by and drop some information that might help. I had the same problem when i had Windows XP. The computer did not recognized the Hard Disk. Try checking your BIOS start up settings, sometimes by simply restarting the PC a couple of times will get you in. The other thing is, do you have both WINDOWS ME and XP installed on your computer? If you have both of them installed in one computer and only running on one hard drive, you should partition the hard drive to two partitions. one partition should be formated to FAT32 (WINDOWS ME) and the other should be NTFS(WINDOWS 2000/XP) *Note that you can not access information from one partition to another* Make sure that the start up log in windows XP is correct. |
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Why not try read all the posts since it is you who started the thread.
You would then see I was replying to Juan R. Since you seem to find that difficult I will repeat the reply I made to YOUR original question: "Since your problem is with installing XP and has nothing to do with Win Me may I suggest you post your query to a newsgroup supporting the XP operating system. However before doing so make certain that you have run the Upgrade Adviser that is on the XP CD and made a note of and action its recommendations before attempting any upgrade." Now is that really a difficult thing to do and understand? I hope not. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Mel wrote: I have no idea what you're talking about, I don't want ot use two operating system on my computer I just want to upgrade it to XP??????????????? |
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