XP Pro upgrade unsmooth

[anphanax]

The story of my upgrade:

*Go to store, pay 150$ for XP Pro Upgrade
*Come home, put in CD. Autorun begins
*Install runs smoothly and asks to shutdown
 and boot from cd
*XP from cd setup initializes and I leave room
*Come back to see computer strangly restarted
*It restarts again after the preperation step
*Ohh, this time it can't verify drive C: anymore
*I go into recovery console, wtf cant I use wildcards
*Decide to install on parition D: 1.2 GB Free
*Here's whats really funny. Since its an upgrade
 it demanded that I insert a windows CD from
 a previous version. That's great considering
 its on my OEM Norton Ghosted CD. Looks like it
 sucks for me because I cant verify I ever
 had windows ME anymore.. Well, I stole a
 windows 98 install from someone. Good thing
 I had that chance or else I would have had
 to redo a lot..
*Boot mananager displays two XP Pro installs
*Run windows. See ugly $$ folders on C: for some
 reason and assume part of C: install so I delete
*Reboot to find I can no longer run windows
 on drive D:
*Reinstall windows on drive D: again
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*Note how stable XP is compared to ME
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*Recover other crap from C: and make changes
 So my low-space D: drive doesnt get new installs
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I don't recall this instant-restart thing being
in the install pamplet (no stop errors, just
restarted)

I don't recall seeing anything about VERIFICATION
ERRORS. (Thanks for the suggestions, I woulnd't be suprised if it tried NTFS on C    

Well, it took me an entire day to upgrade from
morning to around 11:00pm to get it almost
they way I wanted it.

The lesson behind this:
Windows XP Pro upgrades don't go smoothly.

Help me with these if possible or motivated:
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There is now a windows emulator for the system I want to use ^_^. I also figured out ther problem with the DOS one was the SOUND, which would cause a general protection fault, so I configured it to be Silent. As for NERO, it tries to write images to disk. I can't get it to recognize my CD writer. This CD problem is becoming burdensome. I will have it whenever I get enough time.

[ February 02, 2003: Message edited by: anphanax ]

[ February 02, 2003: Message edited by: anphanax ]

[ February 02, 2003: Message edited by: anphanax ]

[Fett101]

All emulators I've played work fine. If not, right click the application and choose the compatibillity tab and fiddle away.

Either way, most upgrade's I've done with MS flow like chunky butter (i.e. Not at all) In fact, it I ever have to reinstall XP, I have to switch out my geforce2 for another card because it won't install with it on. Wonderful.

And EZCD4

"I use easy cd creator 4 on xp with no problems: Go to Windows Update and download and install the Application Compatibility update, then download the latest update to 4.05 from the Roxio site and install it. This won't help with DirectCD or Take Two, but it has EZCD4 working fine for me on xp pro." link. Google works wonders.

[xyle_one]

umm. the only thing i can offer is to get rid of windows. it is only a bug ridden virus incubater anyways, and use a real os.

[DJ]

quote:Originally posted by anphanax:
The story of my upgrade:

*snip*

The lesson behind this:
Windows XP Pro upgrades don't go smoothly.

*snip*

That is why we don't support XP at our Hell Desk at school. The only thing they tell people who have recently or are going to install is to always do a fresh install and never upgrade. TCP/IP won't work, keeps saying installed programas and files that are there do not exist BLAH. Good thing I have seen the light  

Dj

[Refalm]

The Windows XP setup probably converted your C: drive to NTFS. Microsoft's boot-disks (not even Windows XP's one) can't read NTFS from DOS.

At the beginning of the installation, the choice is given to you if you want to have a FAT32 partition or a NTFS partition, but since you where away, Windows XP setup automaticly choose NTFS.

Also, why did you pay for Windows XP? It's really crap, next time find someone who can burn it for you (and install the crack with it).

[berryath]

Don't you ever pay for an OS again!!!! You can use cracked copies or copies from corporated editions!!! You can even update them!!!! Mame 32 works fine as an emulator!!! Don't upgrade OS, never works!!! Get a backup and to do the hole thing again

[berryath]

Sorry, I forgot!! Use Nero!!!!EZCD creator is a pain in the ass!! Needs to be updated and that costs!!! Find Nero 5.0 or more, it works fine with XP

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by periergos:
Don't you ever pay for an OS again!!!!

true. you can download a very nice operating system for free from www.redhat.com
 

quote:You can use cracked copies or copies from corporated editions!!! You can even update them!!!! Mame 32 works fine as an emulator!!! Don't upgrade OS, never works!!! Get a backup and to do the hole thing again[/QB]

what is the point in using cracked copies if you can get better software, for free, and comletely legit.