Re: Upgrade from xp home to xp profesional
From: Spinner (spinner_at_web.cor)
Date: 04/01/04
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:14:04 -0500
Since you chose not to include ANY of the post your replying to,
I have no idea if your replying to me , Ken, or one of the other posters.
But here it goes, I never saw your first post. Up until VERY recently I
blocked all
messages from "anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com".
>From the little I have heard of your problem, it sounds like a hardware
problem,
most likely failing or defective RAM. I've seen plenty of installs and
upgrades fail due to hardware problems, which had nothing to do with the OS.
I have seen machines run 98 without a problem for several years, yet refuse
to install XP due to sub standard memory. I have seen XP refuse to install
correctly on a machine with an old ISA sound card, and another with an
antiquated video card. Since you said you reinstalled XP Home and are having
the same issues, I could almost guarantee it's a failing hardware component.
And before you start complaining about XP not likely hardware that is "less
then perfect", try UNIX or Linux to REALLY see hardware requirements.
As to your backup problem, never saw the post, so I have no idea what your
problem is. I will do a google search on your sig and see what I find.
As to your floppy issue, did you verify the files could open on the XP
machine after copying them to the floppy? There are many things that can
cause that a bad /defective floppy, corrupted files, corrupted word (did you
try to open any other files with Word on the 2k machine) a misaligned floppy
drive on either machine, and yes, even a problem with XP as some people are
reporting issues with floppy drives and XP that do not seem to have an
answer. No one said it could not be a software problem, but you assumed it
could be nothing else, which was your only real mistake.
"Rice71" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11cd101c4173e$8ec1c010$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> OK, since it's obvious that your main agenda is to nit-
> pick the semantics and phraseology of my original posts,
> I'll take it all back. My only excuse is that I was angry
> and frustrated after spending a whole weekend trying to
> pick up the pieces left by this "easiest and most likely
> successful of all upgrades" and was faced with the fact
> that in order to get my PC working again I was going to
> have to do a reinstall of the operating system and then
> have to reinstall and reconfigure all my applications.
> This despite having followed all the instructions and
> recommended precautions, including doing a full backup
> before beginning.
>
> As I said in my previous post (you have read my other
> posts, haven't you?) I know that there is no guarantee
> that an OS upgrade will go smoothly, or even be
> successful. In fact, my experience with previous upgrades
> leads me to expect that there are going to be problems
> that will have to be resolved. What I do expect, however,
> is that the upgrade process will be robust enough to
> detect when there are problems and to give the user the
> ability to either resolve the problem or to back out of
> the update so that they can investigate the cause of the
> problem. Not to crash or hang and leave the computer in
> an unbootable and unrepairable state. The fact that you
> consider that possibility as totally acceptable says a
> great deal about the level of quality you're willing to
> accept in software.
>
> I realize now that there must be something in my system
> configuration that both the Home and Pro versions of the
> Win XP upgrade/repair process doesn't like, although it's
> something the install process doesn't have a problem
> with. The thing is, I'll never know what it was or how I
> could have anticipated and corrected the problem, thanks
> to the fragile nature of the upgrade/repair process.
>
> I also noticed that while in 'blame the customer' mode you
> have chosen to ignore the technical issues I've raised, as
> well as my original post asking for assistance in using
> the backup I made to fix the damage done by the attempted
> upgrade and restoring my system to its previous state.
> You've also ignored the post by 'Jay Jay' describing the
> exact same problem I encountered while attempting to run
> the upgrade and repair processes.
>
> As a postscript, after reinstalling Win XP Home Tuesday
> night, yesterday I went to the Windows Update web page in
> order to reapply all the patches and updates for Windows
> and IE that have been released, and applied, in the 18
> months since I purchased Win XP. The first that I
> attempted to download and install was the SP1 update to
> Win XP. Halfway through the process it hung and left the
> PC in the all-too-familiar unbootable and unrepairable
> state that the upgrade/repair process tended to leave it
> in. I reinstalled Win XP last night, but I'm not sure
> what to do now, any ideas?
>
> Also, I copied some Word documents on my home PC to a
> floppy disk last night after reinstalling Win XP and when
> I try to open them on my Win 2000 PC at work using Word
> 2000 I am unable get them to open. No error messages or
> warnings. Just the floppy drive churning for several
> minutes and then Word shuts down. Any idea what I'm doing
> wrong here, since it can't be anything to do with the
> software, right?
>
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