Re: XP Home to XP Pro update problem

Issues like that are usually cause by either a bad CD, a bad CD drive, bad hard drive, or bad RAM. I would suggest running memtest86 on the RAM and the Hard drive mfgs test utility on the hard drive as a place to start.

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"Verseau" <Verseau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:00DCFD4F-AFC2-45A6-94CE-90C045315655@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good evening.

Small problem here:

While not really necessary, I wanted to update from XP Home to XP Pro for
some additional features and such and I encountered a problem.

It starts off OK: recommends upgrade rather full install which I choose,
checked for any new downloadable things for the update process (tried it this
way and also skippped that function).

I then enter the product key and it copies some things from the disk to the
hard drive and then at the very end of that process I get an error message
saying something to the effect that, "as23YTpp567.sys" is missing...would
like to retry, skip or cancel...

Itired all of those things. It will not work with a re-try, skipping result
in a error upon reboot and cancel simply stopps the install process.

I then tried booting from CD and that only allows a full install...and I do
not want that;

I tried copying the disk, thinking that sometimes if there is something
corrupt or a ding in the CD, burning sometimes corrects those issues...

nothing appears to be working.

I turned off all virus and security procotcols I have in place (Zone alarm
Pro Suite and a couple other apps)...

One thing that occurred to me is that I have shut off unnecessary services
via msconfig and other apps...more of the the annoying non essential kind
(including non-MSoft variety) but I don't recall or believe I've shut off
anything integral to XP...

Any suggestions or assistance would be appreciated.

thank you for your time and attention.

G

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