Upgrading from XP Home to XP Professional Problem.
From: I recomend.... (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:55:08 -0800
Here is what I recomend.....and why.....
I just recently bought XP pro and was intending on doing
an upgrade from 98. I wanted to save all my profiles and
didn't want to lose anything important. I had previously
had problems on 98 with spyware and a couple other issues
that I had not quite been able to correct that I was
hoping would get taken care of during the install upgrade
of XP Pro. After 5 minutes into trying to set up XP after
the install, I realized it was pointless. It had too many
bugs and was worse than even the buggiest version on
Windows ME. I copied and saved in a safe location, the my
documents folders for all users and looked in all files
that might be over-written during a fresh install. Then I
did a fresh install and wiped out Win98. I would recomend
a fresh install. You can do it one of two ways...install
over the XP home and keep everything on the hard drive, or
by re-formating the hard drive and doing it completely
fresh. If you want to keep the same setting (user
profiles and such), use the Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard first, then proceed to what ever method of fresh
install you would prefer. I did not wipe my hard drive
(looking back, I probably would), I ended up re-installing
most of my programs anyway.
In short terms - always do a fresh install - never upgrade.
>-----Original Message-----
>I bought a notebook with XP Home on it had it running for
a while and today decided to upgrade it to XP Pro.
>Anyways, it was all going fine until, it got to the point
where it is Installing Windows & Installing Devices.
>It gets stuck at about 34 minutes into the install.
>A box comes up and says "Modem ..."
>and it says Please select a country, I select Canada and
click OK.
>After that nothing happens, no activity on the CD rom or
Processor activity.
>The computer is responding, I can move the mouse, those
pages
>which describe how XP is better are still changing...
>I have a built in modem on the notebook.
>
>I'm really stuck and I don't know what to do.
>Anyone?
>.
>
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