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Froze when install XP!
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 3:48 am
by cy
My harddrive caught a static and went on fire yesterday when i was building my friend's computer
, so today I went to buy a WD 40GB. I came back happliy, actually not really, spent $140 unwillingly....I installed, fdisk it into primary 8GB, all rest goes into the other drive. When I install ME, no problem. Then when i try to install XP, it stop installing at one point and when i restart the comp, it popped up a blue screen saying that my c: is corrupted and cannot be repair........
So i cleaned out all partition and re-partition it and it's installing ME now.
What i m trying to do now is install ME first, get internet working, do the update install, see whether it'll work
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:00 am
by Mikerad
All I can say is if something is going wrong, the first place I would look would be at Windows ME. Worst OS Ever!
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:11 am
by jumpingrat
Ya know what cy, I've yet to see xp install clean over me.
If ya got the upgrade install over 98se or 2000.
The best is to do a clean install though.
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:55 am
by A_old
exchange the harddisk.
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 9:21 am
by YeOldeStonecat
Is it an XP upgrade cd? Or an entire copy? If an entire copy, then why is ME going on first? I'd pop in the XP cd....delete all partitions using NT's partitioning utility, and formatting them there.
If an upgrade cd....this used to work with prior OS's and software, haven't had the chance to try it with XP, but you used to be able to install it on a blank cd...then when it fails to find a prior version to upgrade, it will prompt you for the location, and you pop in a Win9X cd, point it to the cd, then it says "OK", back to XP cd...back to the install. This used to work with 98 upgrade...I'd just pop in the 95 cd for a minute.
Granted yes ME is a joke of a buggy OS, but it's not booting into ME, shouldn't be a problem.
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 3:12 pm
by cy
My copy of XP is full. However, it's not bootable and cannot be run in dos. So i have to install either 98 first or ME, in this case, i picked ME.
Anyways, problem solved. Turned out to be the PCI slot that my NIC was in is screwed up or conflicting with something, so my system wasn't stable. All i did is switched NIC to another slot and all went ok.
One thing i still don't understand though is that why did it tell me that my HD is corrupted but not conflict?
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 3:24 pm
by SICMF
Every Xp cd can boot if the bios is set to boot from cd-rom first. even just the upgrade. In beginning of the install it will ask you to verify you able to use the upgrade, you just put the me disk in and hit enter, then it will verify and ask for the xp disk again.
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:30 pm
by cy
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:34 pm
by SICMF
Well not a good idea to use it. Anyway go to
http://www.hotfiles.com and download WinISO and create a Iso of the OS. Then burn it as ISO in CD burnig Software. But not a good idea to use it. That could be the prob.
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:03 pm
by The Dude
Originally posted by cy
muhaha...i got mine from......w....a...r.....e..z....
WAREZ=BORG
You are probably a member of their collective without even knowing it.
There collective consists of your bank and credit card numbers and anything else they can get off of your hard drive.
Might be a good idea to scan for Trojans before going online.