WIN XP Clean Install

[Joe Gotsens]

I have win 98 SE installed and wish to upgrade. The
computer is an AMD Athlon 1.2 GIG TBird, with two Hard
disks. I backed up my C: drive to D: with Drive Image and
I was able to reinstall WIN 98 SE.
This is what I am using to contact you with now.
I used Partition Magic to Format an NTFS partiton on C:.
Then I rebooted, with WIN XP disk in the CD ROM Drive.
While rebooting, I went into the BIOS to Change the boot
sequence to CD ROM first. Then I continued to boot. After
the "press any key to Boot from CD" message appeared,
which I ignored, the boot from the CD ROM drive started.
At this point, the drive hung up, after displaying a few
dots, and would not continue with the installation. I want
a clean boot system. How else, can I accomplish this?
Please describe in detail.

I tried a long time ago to install WIN XP and did not have
this problem. I did not continue with WIN XP because of
driver unavailability. I now have the drivers I need, but
it will not install. I changed one of my two CD ROMs for a
DVD ROM drive, and added a new scanner. This should not
cause any problems.

 

[Kevin]

You need to boot from the XP install disk.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have win 98 SE installed and wish to upgrade. The
computer is an AMD Athlon 1.2 GIG TBird, with two Hard
disks. I backed up my C: drive to D: with Drive Image and
I was able to reinstall WIN 98 SE.
This is what I am using to contact you with now.
I used Partition Magic to Format an NTFS partiton on C:.
Then I rebooted, with WIN XP disk in the CD ROM Drive.
While rebooting, I went into the BIOS to Change the boot
sequence to CD ROM first. Then I continued to boot. After
the "press any key to Boot from CD" message appeared,
which I ignored, the boot from the CD ROM drive started.
At this point, the drive hung up, after displaying a few
dots, and would not continue with the installation. I want
a clean boot system. How else, can I accomplish this?

You have a problem in booting the CD itself: maybe a trouble with the
drive or with the disk. It would help to know the message that you
ignored.

What *ought* to happen is that you then get a screen with a couple of
options - the first being 'Setup Windows now' - take that one.

After replying with an F8 to accept the license agreement, you may get
another menu - take New Install. When it asks to confirm where, hit ESC
and select *and delete* the NTFS partition you made, then make a new
one for setup to format as next action (I would much rather the
partition were made by XP itself than any third party program)

Alternatively, if you put your Win98 back, run the XP CD from that.
Enter Install, then either upgrade (a good idea in the first instance -
it will retain programs and data) or change Upgrade to New Install, and
follow the same course as above

And do not try unless you have 192MB of RAM or more