Re: win98se to XP pro upgrade error

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From: David Sheetz (dwsheetz_at_nospamhotmail.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:46:11 -0600

no luck, will just stick with Windows 98 til it can't be fixed no more...
shame no one knows what the heck is going on. Microsoft should allow
technicians to override crap like this somehow and just choose which OS they
are going to upgrade and give a warning that other os's will become useless.
Poor error trapping again by MS programmers who don't know what the heck
they are doing....

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <mrxp2004@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:#0FYIlC9DHA.3648@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Download the free 30 trial version of System Mechanic (www.iolo.com)
> and perform a thorough cleanup of the Windows 98 registry. Then try
> upgrading again.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
>
> Be Smart! Protect your PC!
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
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> "David Sheetz" <dwsheetz@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message:
> news:OjZT8kA9DHA.3200@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> | fdisk /mbr only restores the Master Boot Record does not change
partitions
> | in any way, it is a neat trick from the old days of DOS and win3.x that
> | fixed a lot of pc's that could not read the HDD
> |
> | yes I ran the XP upgrade advisor from a RETAIL version CD ,that is where
I
> | got the message first. This is not really an undiagnosable issue but
rather
> | an isssue of finding out from someone who knows what it looks for to
> | determine that multiple OS's are installed. Someone HAS to know what it
> | looks at running the wizard...
>

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