Re: Upgade to Windows XP
- From: "VanguardLH" <VanguardLH@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:51:34 -0500
"Recolections" <Recolections@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8F62E942-F0D7-4AB2-9E60-48FB8EF2BA49@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am attempting to upgrade my operating system, as it is no longer supported.
Why do you care if an old version of the OS is no longer supported? Did you actually get any support for it before? You get 2 incidents for free with Windows. After that, you pay. Did you use up those 2 incidents? Did you actually bother to pay to get further support? Not supported does NOT mean not usable. That choice is YOURS.
I intend to use the method of istalling in from a disk I obtained from a
department store [Walmart to be exact].
So I take it we are to guess that you inserted into your computer a hard drive that was polluted with a previous install of the OS. Why do you think that would work? Was the hardware configuration EXACTLY the same for the old computer under which the OS was installed onto that hard disk as for your hardware configuration where you moved the hard disk? You've heard of device drivers, right. Well, they are coded to support SPECIFIC hardware devices. Is the CPU the same between the old computer and your computer? Is the motherboard's chipset the same? Do they both have the same NIC? Do they have the same printers, spec for the USB (1.x vs. 2.0), the same mouse, the same keyboard, the same video adapter/controller, and so on? If so, why didn't you get them to simply let you swap your computer for theirs (under the assumption the OS on the hard disk was working okay when it was in their computer)?
There is no way Walmart would sell hard disk with the OS pre-installed without including the rest of the computer with it (i.e., the hard disk is *in* a computer under which [an image of] the OS was installed). Walmart would have no clue as to how to properly image the OS on the hard disk so that it would work with some unknown computer hardware configuration. So just how did you get just the hard disk from Walmart with the OS already preloaded on it? Yeah, doesn't sound like a legit OS install.
When doing the compatibility test
there are items that are not compatible, and I don't know how to remove them.
An example is the intel graphic technology.
What you got was a polluted hard disk. You should install a FRESH copy of the OS. Either wipe the hard disk (www.killdisk.com) or use the partitioning tools included in the OS setup to delete, [re]create, and format the partition in which you install the OS. But then I suspect that you never did get a legal copy of the OS with the polluted hard disk.
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