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Hi
I've been assisting a friend with the installation of Win XP Pro Upgrade.
The current OS is Windows ME
The problem is that part way through the installation process it will get to
a certain point and then the PC will simply reboot and we then have to go
through the whole process again! Upon the next attempt (from scratch!) the
upgrade may get a little further ahead before it reboots or it may happen
prior to the previous point.
This rebooting is not to be confused with the normal reboots one expects
during an installation process. It happens when the install is half cooked
eg on DOS Screen showing a horizontal yellow bar graph it gets to say 43%
and before it gets to 100% the PC will just reboot as if someone had pressed
the reset button!
This is proving almost impossible to install and consuming a frustrating
amount of time.
The pre install compatibilty check said there were no problems so I dont
understand why this is happening or how to get around it.
Ive tried copying the I386 folder to the hard drive as suggested in one of
the install help files but it didnt make any difference.
The PC is very stable under ME or running DOS progs and rarely crashes so we
dont suspect its a hardware fault.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any info.
Ian
Hi
I've been assisting a friend with the installation of Win XP Pro Upgrade.
The current OS is Windows ME
The problem is that part way through the installation process it will get to
a certain point and then the PC will simply reboot and we then have to go
through the whole process again! Upon the next attempt (from scratch!) the
upgrade may get a little further ahead before it reboots or it may happen
prior to the previous point.
This rebooting is not to be confused with the normal reboots one expects
during an installation process. It happens when the install is half cooked
eg on DOS Screen showing a horizontal yellow bar graph it gets to say 43%
and before it gets to 100% the PC will just reboot as if someone had pressed
the reset button!
This is proving almost impossible to install and consuming a frustrating
amount of time.
The pre install compatibilty check said there were no problems so I dont
understand why this is happening or how to get around it.
Ive tried copying the I386 folder to the hard drive as suggested in one of
the install help files but it didnt make any difference.
The PC is very stable under ME or running DOS progs and rarely crashes so we
dont suspect its a hardware fault.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any info.
Ian