Re: new cpu/mobo/memory, old HD, Blue Death Screen when upgrade past SP2

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trouble with the 2 links to MS answers is that
1) my mobo essentially failed , so there was no ability to upgrade
from a running system
2) article 2 states that M$ does not support anything except using the
same hardware, which is not my situation

my mobo would not boot, so i upgraded the whole mb/cpu/memory


foo1 wrote:
trouble now is that i've started to reinstall over my main HD, and it
would not allow a parallell installation so, i bit the bullet overwrote
the whole thing with a full formatting, then i believed stopped the
installation after that, tried to continue later and now i have a
300gig HD saying it is 137gig and/or showing like 5 empty partitions
with the 137 gig partitions
i did a low level format from the maxtor HD tool, however still am
stuck with the wrong HD size, i believe the HD is 'locked'? and/or
this has somethign to do with an 'overlay' but again have no idea how
to fix this

can you help on getting the HD to show as 300gig again?


M


paulmd@xxxxxxx wrote:
foo1 wrote:
ya makes lot of sense, maybe i just wanted to hear what is normally
done, for, your right, upgrading the system

thx for answering, i've 2 HDs think i'll just parallel install and copy
things over on the main HD, then boot from CD and clone that HD to the
2nd HD

doesn't seem to be any harm of parallel installs, versus reformat
installs, not sure why 1st poster was suggesting i do a reformat
install

Dave's a good technician, Reformat installs are several times more
reliable.

.

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