Re: Problem to upgrade from XP home to XP Pro. Please help !

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 02/25/05


Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:15:08 -0600

Setup stops responding with 34 minutes remaining
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828267

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Carey Frisch
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"Problem upgrade from XP home to XP Pro" wrote:
| had a go at installing XP Pro + SP2 and it all went fine up to a point, but 
| then disaster struck !  I selected to do an upgrade (I currently have Windows 
| XP Home) and it did a check on Microsoft on the internet to check for 
| upgrades or something.
| 
| Anyway it all carried on through the preparing installation part, and then 
| going through the Installation it had got to 34 minutes to go (from 39 
| minutes) when the PC suddenly powered off and a warning message came up on a 
| DOS type screen saying the set up had been abandoned to protect computer 
| resources.  I tried three more times and the set up failed at the same point. 
| Have you any ideas what is going on ?  I don't think there is anything wrong 
| in my PC set-up, it is a new PC that I only bought in July.
| 
| The snag is that I can't wind-back to XP Home now.  Whenever the computer 
| starts up it goes straight in to the Windows Set up.  So I am completely 
| stuck.


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