probs upgrading Win2kPro to WinXPPro

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

Try a boot floppy. To start the operating system try creating a boot floppy.
For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the
"NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine, not a
DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy
ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it;

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 0,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 0,2"
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 1,1"
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 1,2"


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Ben_in_AUS" wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have used the XPPro upgrade cd to upgrade my 2k Pro installation on my
| COMPAQ EN Slimline desktop (Celeron 733).
| After running setup from within windows it copies file to the HD and then
| reboots. At the boot screen I have choice of 2k or XP setup. I choose XP
| setup and setup starts. When setup tries to verify C drive (my win2k
| installation) an error message is displayed indicating that maybe I don't
| have enough RAM (320MB) or the CD has corrupt files. This is not true
since
| this CD was used to upgrade another PC in our company (OEM MSDN CD). If I
| restart and choose to boot into 2k I get a stop error 7B (inaccessable
boot
| device). This appears after the 2k logo screen appears and while the blue
| progress bar is half way.
| I have already tried to use the recovery console to fix the boot
partition,
| but not the mbr since I can still see the data on the HD. I have tried
| removing the CD drive so that I only have the HD on the IDE. It still
can't
| boot into 2k.
|
| Please help. I have several programs installed that would take some time
to
| reinstall into XP.
|
| Regards,
| Ben

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

Thanks Dave. Already done.
Booted into the recovery console and restored
those 3 original files from the 2k CD.
Was then able to boot into 2k and upgrade to XP.
This time I copied the XP CD to HD and run
setup from the HD. No probs this time.

Regards,
Ben_in_AUS

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> Try a boot floppy. To start the operating system try creating a boot floppy.
> For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the
> "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine, not a
> DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy
> ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it;
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=10
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 0,1"
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 0,2"
> multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 1,1"
> multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 1,2"
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "Ben_in_AUS" wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I have used the XPPro upgrade cd to upgrade my 2k Pro installation on my
> | COMPAQ EN Slimline desktop (Celeron 733).
> | After running setup from within windows it copies file to the HD and then
> | reboots. At the boot screen I have choice of 2k or XP setup. I choose XP
> | setup and setup starts. When setup tries to verify C drive (my win2k
> | installation) an error message is displayed indicating that maybe I don't
> | have enough RAM (320MB) or the CD has corrupt files. This is not true
> since
> | this CD was used to upgrade another PC in our company (OEM MSDN CD). If I
> | restart and choose to boot into 2k I get a stop error 7B (inaccessable
> boot
> | device). This appears after the 2k logo screen appears and while the blue
> | progress bar is half way.
> | I have already tried to use the recovery console to fix the boot
> partition,
> | but not the mbr since I can still see the data on the HD. I have tried
> | removing the CD drive so that I only have the HD on the IDE. It still
> can't
> | boot into 2k.
> |
> | Please help. I have several programs installed that would take some time
> to
> | reinstall into XP.
> |
> | Regards,
> | Ben
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade (More info?)

Thanks for letting us know.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Ben_in_AUS" wrote:
| Thanks Dave. Already done.
| Booted into the recovery console and restored
| those 3 original files from the 2k CD.
| Was then able to boot into 2k and upgrade to XP.
| This time I copied the XP CD to HD and run
| setup from the HD. No probs this time.
|
| Regards,
| Ben_in_AUS