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Upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro- Error Message
I get an error message every time I try to update my XP Home to XP Pro. It says something about Windows not being able to find a hard drive or something. This is when I am in the setup after the computer starts, not while I am in windows. I also get another error when I try to do the upgrade feature in Windows. It will start upgrading then I get a blue screen that says something about a bad pool something or other. Anyone have any suggestions to my very vague problem? I have a Dimension 8400 (no floppy...i have seen suggestions to use floppy disks for other things, but I don't have one).
- Upgrade will be very difficult on that PC, you are better off to back up your data, and do a Clean install of XP Pro. Upgrades are bug ridden even when they go well during the upgrade process, you will have many issues to deal with when you start using Pro.To do a Clean install, enter the bios and make a "Drive Controller" change, set it to RAID Autodetect/ATA you will not need drivers now, XP Pro will see the drives without them,After making the bios change boot off of the XP Pro CD and do a clean install by deleting the C partition and then create a new C partition to install Pro on.
jheigl24
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Posted October 8th, 2007 20:00