Re: Windows XP Home Installation Problem

Nope, did none of that. I could not boot from the Home CD although I could
get into Setup from an old Windows XP Pro CD. I tried a repair which ended in
disaster; the C drive at least is hosed; I'm not sure about a second
partition on my hard drive which I would like to keep. But I do have the info
to delete the C partition and create a new one and see if that works.

Neal Lavon
Takoma Park, MD
USA

"DL" wrote:

> You booted useing the xphome cd?
> Deleted partitions?
> Created partitions/formated/installed?
>
> "Neal Lavon" <NealLavon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:CD89A7EC-EFF3-48FA-B172-7154BED72FCD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I had a devil of a time with a new Windows XP Home disk. I want to clean
> > install XP Home into my C partition drive. This partition currently
> contains
> > an old and decrepit Windows XP Pro system. I tried booting into Setup with
> > the XP Home disk but got Stop errors and I eventually corrupted a system
> file
> > [vgaoem.fon] which kept me from being able to boot into my current Windows
> XP
> > Pro system. When I returned to try and run Setup Repair from the XP Home
> > disk, I kept getting Session 3 Initialization Failures. I then tried it
> with
> > the old XP Pro disk and made it to the repair screen. That helped me
> restore
> > the corrupted system file. I would like to now install a clean copy of
> > Windows XP Home on my current C:\ partition. So why didn't XP Home work
> for a
> > Setup in my old system? Think I can use it now? Any advice appreciated.
> >
> > Neal Lavon
> > Takoma Park, MD
> > USA
> >
>
>
>
.

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