Patrick said:
I am trying to upgrade from windows 98 to win xp home
edition. i get started and run into "error 3e6h" any
ideas what this error is and why i get it?
How far along into the installation are you? There are two ways of
installing XP - a clean install where the hard drive is formatted first
and an upgrade install where the new operating system is installed "on
top" of the old operating system. If you are doing the latter, try a
clean install instead. Formatting the drive will wipe all current data,
so you would expect to reinstall programs from cd and restore data from
backups. Be sure all peripherals (printers, scanners, cameras) are
disconnected and any BIOS-level antivirus is disabled. If you are
already doing a clean install and the installation is failing, you
probably have bad hardware. Start with a RAM test - I like Memtest86
from
www.memtest86.com - and let the test run for an extended time,
like overnight (unless you get errors immediately). If the RAM is good,
then run a hard drive diagnostic utility, which you can get from the
drive mftr.'s website.
Malke
