Re: Upgrading to XP w/SP2 from 98SE, via boot of CD

gcmom7 wrote:
I am trying to upgrade to XP w/SP2 from 98SE, via boot of CD. The XP Setup
doesn't recognize a previous Windows OS on my comp, so it asked me to insert
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Nepatsfan

Thank you for your response. Before I received it last night, I read on
Microsoft's site that if it the install program stopped responding, to try to
wait 10-15 mins to see if it would start up again. I tried this---within the
regular set-up of my comp, via 98SE....not via a boot from the CD-----and it
did indeed start responding again after about just 5-7 mins of stopping
responding. Since the program wasn't reaching the Microsoft update site (as
you discovered, too), I had disconnected my cable internet. After the Dynamic
Update couldn't reach the website, I clicked the 'go on ahead and install'
section, too. (I had done that before, too.....but, after it stopped
responding, of course, I exited the program, rather than trying to wait 10-20
mins, as Microsoft site suggested.) However, when the install tonight got to
analyzing the computer, (it started out telling me that it would take 83 mins
approx for the install------or thereabouts), it stopped telling me that at
about 78 mins., though the program wasn't hanging up, at least not to the
point that it said that when I did Cntrl, Alt, Del to check. The small
multicolored squares at the bottom right of the program's screen, too, never
stopped moving across and across--showing the program was still responding.
The Intro to XP never stopped running over----the screens that tell you all
about what's going to be available both on and with XP. After about an hour,
though, being "stuck" at 78 mins and about 2/3 of the way thru analyzing the
comp, though it still showed the program as 'responding', I then gave up, by
Cntl, Alt, Del and ending the Update process. It asked if I wanted to do that,
I said yes, and then it told me it would spend time 'un-doing' what it'd done
already, it did, and then the program closed as asked. I restarted the comp,
then tried the entire thing again------this time hooking it up to the
internet again, though it can't reach that site anyway. I went thru just what
you mentioned, saying no to the Dynamic Update after the first try, and it
went on again as I just described-----hitting the same hang-up for about 5-6
mins, then responding again. Once again, it stopped at about 2/3 of the
analyzing of the comp, at about 78 mins left in the installation--it said,
and even though I left it on and watched it for about another hour, whilst
the program never stopped responding-----Intro screens still moved, the
bottom-right squares still moved across and across, and Cntl, Alt, Del never
indicated the program wasn't responding.......I then went to bed,leaving it
on all night, occasionally looking at it when I awoke a few times--to find it
doing the same ol' responding (supposedly), and as of this morning when I got
up, it still hadn't moved any further on its graph of analyzing the comp, nor
of the 78 mins time left.

I did read at Microsoft that I could put the FAT32 into that NTSB, but, of
course, that was suggested to be done after I found the XP program to be
working with the comp for a few days AFTER the installation of it, because
one can't change that back. I was hoping that perhaps that might help the
comp not run in the sluggish manner that both you and Jim suggest it to
probably doing once it's installed.
I just can't seem to get it installed. LOL~ I guess I'll try to get ahold
of Microsoft and see what they say about the installation of it right now. I
still don't understand why my comp specs seem to be enough for what is
suggested to have a min. of for XP, and why you and Jim don't seem to think
that will be good enough......though, don't get me wrong, ....I trust that....
.I just don't get it. ha~ I did find at Microsoft last night that I wouldn't
have enough on my comp, at this point, to do Vista.

BTW, would adding an external hard drive add enough comp specs to do Vista? I
know you both suggest a new comp, but those are considerably more in cost as
to what I could afford to do right now. ;-0
Thanks for your help here....

I've been reading online again----please help me to understand this possible
solution. If I were to purchase an External Hard Drive, connect it to my comp,
then do the following with my students' 'papers', projects, pic files, my
document file, and other stuff of mine, would that work to save it all to put
on the comp again, once I did a Clean Install of the Windows XP SP2 that I
have? Also, would I have to remove the Hard Drive from my comp to do the
Clean Install, then connect it again after that? Or would it matter? ***(BTW,
I have most of the programs that I need on original CD's, and the others can
be downloaded again.---I have the codes to do so still, for the ones I've
purchased. Some were free.)****

[b]Making backup copies manually
Regardless of what version of Windows you use, you can manually make a backup
copy of any file or folder by following these steps:

1.
Right-click the file or folder that you want to back up, and then click Copy
from the menu.

2.
Now, in My Computer, you can right-click the disk or external hard drive
where you want to store the backup copy, and then click Paste from the menu.
[/b]

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