Upgrading an ME based HP Pavilion to XP

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From: John Henderson (fourstardave_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 05:22:14 -0800

1. I have built/assembled 3 computers from scratch that
work wonderfully.
2. The HP Pavilion model in question is an HP 8766c
w/1024 k memory and the latest 2.02 bios from HP.
3. Got the CD from HP direct titled "Upgrading Pavilion
PC from Me to XP.
4. NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG has worked beginning with f
disk, loading 98 the a new Me then try upgrade to XP.
Tried all versions of XP including Media edition. It will
simply not complete an upgrade giving all kinds of crazy
and different and inconsistent error messages as to why
it cannot complete the task.
5. I was--amazingly--once able to get WIN 2000 on it and
it worked for over a year but when I tried to upgrade
from there it would not work then I wiped everything off
and started from scratch with Me on and nada.
6. COMPUSA has unit now and they are all frustrated.
Cannot load XP either any version. They have checked all
the hardware and it is functioning fine; they even blew
everything off the drive, formatted and started from
scratch just as I did.
7. HP has called me to say that sometimes it works
sometimes it doesn't and refunded my CD money for the
transition disk.
9. I hate to throw away a 900 Pentium 3 machine away that
is otherwise perfectly sound but I want XP.

CAN ANYBODY HELP?????????????

I bet this is the tougest one on the board in a long time.

Thanks in adavance,
John Henderson

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