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XP installation gone bad
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| Lee Parsons 2005-04-06, 2:16 pm |
| I attempted an install of XP Pro on a working XP Home drive. I
specified "New Installation" and upon reboot, it came to "Starting
Windows Setup" and just stopped.
It has done that ever since. The OS selection screen lists both the
Home installation and the XP Pro Setup, but the setup selection locks
up.
I went back and tried an Upgrade installation, but it's the same
thing.
Any ideas on what's happening?
Thanks
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| «bonehead;\) 2005-04-06, 2:17 pm |
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"Lee Parsons" <gentlee@cheshire.net> wrote in message
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> I attempted an install of XP Pro on a working XP Home drive. I
> specified "New Installation" and upon reboot, it came to "Starting
> Windows Setup" and just stopped.
>
> It has done that ever since. The OS selection screen lists both the
> Home installation and the XP Pro Setup, but the setup selection locks
> up.
>
> I went back and tried an Upgrade installation, but it's the same
> thing.
>
> Any ideas on what's happening?
>
Your MBR is Screwed up... Best to fdisk with a Win 98
boot disk and start over.....
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<B0N3H3@D>
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
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| Patrick Michael 2005-04-06, 2:17 pm |
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"«bonehead " <noone@spam.not> wrote in message
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> "Lee Parsons" <gentlee@cheshire.net> wrote in message
> news:bqh6n0lo5t7npf8tvlqbod8hv
er98ck68e@4ax.com...
> Your MBR is Screwed up... Best to fdisk with a Win 98
> boot disk and start over.....
If the MBR is screwed up, then the guy needs to use the installation disc to
boot to Recovery Console and do a fixboot and/or fixmbr.
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| Micah Torrance 2005-04-06, 2:17 pm |
| On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:17:34 GMT, "«bonehead;\)" <noone@spam.not>
wrote:
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>"Lee Parsons" <gentlee@cheshire.net> wrote in message
> news:bqh6n0lo5t7npf8tvlqbod8hv
er98ck68e@4ax.com...
>Your MBR is Screwed up... Best to fdisk with a Win 98
>boot disk and start over.....
Did that already, no good.
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| Patrick Michael 2005-04-06, 2:17 pm |
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"Lee Parsons" <gentlee@cheshire.net> wrote in message
news:bqh6n0lo5t7npf8tvlqbod8hv
er98ck68e@4ax.com...
>I attempted an install of XP Pro on a working XP Home drive. I
> specified "New Installation" and upon reboot, it came to "Starting
> Windows Setup" and just stopped.
>
> It has done that ever since. The OS selection screen lists both the
> Home installation and the XP Pro Setup, but the setup selection locks
> up.
>
> I went back and tried an Upgrade installation, but it's the same
> thing.
>
> Any ideas on what's happening?
Well, after re-reading this, it seems very weird that it would list both "XP
Professional" and "XP Home" on the OS Selection screen. You can't run both
of them on the same partition. Have you tried a simple "fresh install"
where you simply format the drive and install from scratch? If that's no
good, you might try a low-level format with the hard drive utility of your
choice (i.e. writing zeroes to every sector of the drive).
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| «bonehead;\) 2005-04-06, 2:17 pm |
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"Patrick Michael" <heismanpat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Lee Parsons" <gentlee@cheshire.net> wrote in message
> news:bqh6n0lo5t7npf8tvlqbod8hv
er98ck68e@4ax.com...
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> Well, after re-reading this, it seems very weird that it would list both
"XP
> Professional" and "XP Home" on the OS Selection screen. You can't run
both
> of them on the same partition. Have you tried a simple "fresh install"
> where you simply format the drive and install from scratch? If that's no
> good, you might try a low-level format with the hard drive utility of your
> choice (i.e. writing zeroes to every sector of the drive).
>
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Use this......... I have a better one but I
can't seem to find a download link....
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<B0N3H3@D>
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
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| Zimran Douglas 2005-04-06, 2:17 pm |
| I don't know if this will help since it's a SP2 issue. However it worked for
me
Turns out that I needed a bios update.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885626
"Lee Parsons" <gentlee@cheshire.net> wrote in message
news:bqh6n0lo5t7npf8tvlqbod8hv
er98ck68e@4ax.com...
>I attempted an install of XP Pro on a working XP Home drive. I
> specified "New Installation" and upon reboot, it came to "Starting
> Windows Setup" and just stopped.
>
> It has done that ever since. The OS selection screen lists both the
> Home installation and the XP Pro Setup, but the setup selection locks
> up.
>
> I went back and tried an Upgrade installation, but it's the same
> thing.
>
> Any ideas on what's happening?
>
> Thanks
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