Help with upgrade from Windows ME to XP Pro SP2

[Guest]

I finally decided to update my Gateway desktop from ME to XP. I installed
the program last night and thought all went well. In addition I am also
installing a wireless gateway. The computer rebooted, and since then I keep
getting a message that one of the disks need to be checked for consistency.
It gives me the option to cancel this; however, it is not recognizing my
keyboard when I try to do so. I've put my keyboard cd back in, it isn't
acknowledged because the system keeps shutting down and restarting with the
"checking file system on C: the type of the file system is FAT32." then it
starts scanning and shutting down again. What can I do? Who do I call? Is
this a Gateway support problem or Microsoft support? I'm at a total loss and
have been working on this for hours. Thank goodness I had my lap top which
is what I'm using now.

 

[Guest]

If you have a retail version of ME,then boot to xp cd,at menu screen select
install xp,new copy,delete the partition,create one,then xp formats the hd
and installs auto.If its a oem recovery cd,youre best bet,upgrade to xp,once
done,clean up the hd,eliminate all ME files (to convert back to
ME,etc)defrag,
then convert FAT32 to ntfs file system (xp default).To do that go to
run,type:
cmd In cmd type:CONVERT C: /FS:ntfs

 

[Guest]

Thank you, I did finally get it to work with a clean install - just about
what you wrote; however, I did loose all of my files - my documents, pictures
and tax files. Is there anyway to recover anything that I did not back up?