Re: Help w/ XP Home
From: Mike Hall (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:51:09 -0500
If you are the same 'Upstairs/Downstairs' guy that posted a while back, you
have already been told how to sort your problems..
First of all, we do not need to know locations of computers in your house..
it doesn't matter where they are..
Using a Win 98 or ME boot diskette, start the ME machine and FDISK then
format it.. set the boot sequence such that it boots off of the CD Drive..
place the XP upgrade into the CD drive and reboot the computer.. go through
the procedure to clean install XP..
Make sure that both computers are working perfectly BEFORE connecting any
network equipment.. you must sort out any problems on each machine before
connecting them.. it is next to impossible if one or other of the machines
is not working the way it should..
"Gary W. Plourde Sr." <mesmeric85@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've two computers: Upstairs (new) hp pavilion a650y using Win XP Home
> Edition, and Downstairs (old) Gateway, using Win ME. I use a Wireless
> Linksys router w/ an adapter for downstairs to connect the two. I also
> purchased Win XP Home upgrade, which is supposed to change the downstairs'
> Win ME into Win XP Home. I had many problems and it was suggested that I
> do a clean install of Win XP. So, by using the Upgrade XP CD, I tried to
> get rid of Win ME on the downstairs, and install only XP. The end result
> was, for reasons I'm still not sure: First, I had to reinstall my router
> adapter downstairs, because XP wouldn't detect it, then, after
> installation, my wireless router kept kicking off line about every minute
> I'd lose the connection. After frustration, I then re-installed Win Me by
> the Restoration disks (specifically disk #2) of the three disks. Now, I
> have no sound or I detect slight sound in the background that's a carry
> over from XP. Why would that be happening when ME does, I thought, a
> completer format of the hard drive? Anyway, can someone help me either
> get rid of Win Me, and format the C drive, then install XP by the upgrade
> disk, or, now that I've re-installed ME, find out why I haven't sound,
> correct it, find out why I was always kicked off line on my wireless
> router, correct it, and either before all this or after all this,
> re-install XP's upgrade, and in the end, have my downstairs computer
> (Gateway), connected wirelessly to my upstairs computer, both using
> Windows XP Home Edition, SP-2, and my wireless router/adapter combination
> working well? Please help.
>
>
>
> Also: Bottom line: At this point, after so many re-installations of Win
> ME and Win XP Home Upgrade, I want to completely reformat my hard drive,
> completely clean is off nada there, and then re-install either Win Me then
> XP's Upgrade, or, if there's a way, use XP's Upgrade for a clean install.
> Can anyone Advise?
>
>
>
> P.S. Is there away in DOS to do a complete format of C: drive?
>
>
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