emachines hang when upgrading from XP Home to XP Pro

[Guest]

I have a couple of emachines to upgrade from XP home to XP pro. The
computers hang at the logo screen no matter which method I use. Upgrade or
fresh install. Works fine with XP Home. Machines are 2.66ghz Celerons with
512megs ram, DVD/cd r/w, card readers usb and firewire. Model is c2881. XP
pro is OEM version sp2. Any Ideas? Losing my hair on this one.

 

[no one]

Did you actually FDISK the Drive to make Sure There is No Hidden partion

 

[Guest]

"I have a couple of emachines to upgrade from XP home to
XP pro."
Why are you upgrading ? Most people do this in the
mistaken belief that their computers will magically run
better or something like that. It's usually unnecessary.

"The computers hang at the logo screen no matter which
method I use."
What logo screen ? eMachines ? Windows XP ? Some other ?

"Works fine with XP Home."
Then why upgrade ?

Are you setting the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM drive as
the FIRST boot device ?

Good Luck !

 

[Guest]

Yep. Wiped out everything. Even "Zeroed" out the drive. Tried putting in a
dos partition, FAT32, NTFS or what have you and still....logo...hang...more
hair on the floor.

 

[Guest]

upgrading to connect to win2k server domain. It gets to the startup logo
screen with the little scrolling progress bars. They make it across one time
every time before it hangs. It occurs right after the first auto restart in
the installation process.

 

[Leythos]

I have a couple of emachines to upgrade from XP home to XP pro. The
computers hang at the logo screen no matter which method I use. Upgrade or
fresh install. Works fine with XP Home. Machines are 2.66ghz Celerons with
512megs ram, DVD/cd r/w, card readers usb and firewire. Model is c2881. XP
pro is OEM version sp2. Any Ideas? Losing my hair on this one.

I don't have any ideas, but it would seem to be driver related - can you
reset the BIOS in those machines to default and try again?

 

[V Green]

upgrading to connect to win2k server domain. It gets to the startup logo
screen with the little scrolling progress bars. They make it across one time
every time before it hangs. It occurs right after the first auto restart in
the installation process.

Can you boot to Safe Mode?

 

[no one]

set the drive to MASTER instead of CABLE SELECT !