problems upgrading 98 installed on D: to XP?

[David Saum]

When I try to upgrade win98 installed on D: of a disk with partitions
C/D/E/F to XP everything goes OK till I reboot the computer and then I get a
reboots after the splash screen, and windows finds disk errors as it reboots
over and over again.

Is there some inherent problem with upgrading 98>XP on drive D, rather then
C? I have checked the drive and eliminated any possibility that it is bad.

TIA

Dave

 

[DL]

Checked the drive, how?
You used the hd manu checking utiity?

 

[David Saum]

Checked the drive, how?
You used the hd manu checking utiity?

No, I have not used the manufacturers
drive test utility since the problem is
the same on several different drives.

I have used several drives that I cloned from
the original 98 drive with Ghost. That way I still
have a working win98 system until I get this
problem solved. The drive errors come up
when XP says it thinks there is a problem with
the drive and does a scan before the bootup
and finds are various problems with the registry
and size of files and partitions etc (always different).
XP fixes them and then goes through the same
cyle again.

The newly installed XP will boot up in the safe mode
without problems, but as soon as it goes to starting
XP, the screen goes blank it starts the disk error
cycle.

The only difference I can figure between this and
other successful 98>XP upgrades that I have done
is that 98 is on D, the second partition.

Dave

 

[DL]

Doesnt make any difference that you o/s is on D

You stated that you had checked the drive?

Since you say that you've tried this on several different drives why have'nt
you done a clean instal of xp on a clean disk, ie one in which all
partitions have been deleted.
Your hardware is compatible with winxp?

 

[David Saum]

Doesnt make any difference that you o/s is on D

You stated that you had checked the drive? yes


Since you say that you've tried this on several different drives why
have'nt you done a clean instal of xp on a clean disk, ie one in which all
partitions have been deleted.

I don't want a clean install since there are
a number of programs on the 98 drive that
I have no way to restore on a clean XP system.

Your hardware is compatible with winxp?

When I run the XP compatibility test,
my 98 system passes.

Dave

 

[DL]

1) Since you have several drives you can afford to lose one with a clean
install

2) How did you check the disk?

3) You verified your Ghost backup/clone?

 

[David Saum]

1) Since you have several drives you can afford to lose one with a clean
install

OK I will try it.

FWIW, my 98>XP upgrades run
fine until I try to reboot, and they run fine in
XP safe mode even after errors get fixed by
XP scan.

2) How did you check the disk?

98 ran fine from cloned disk, as did scandisk.
I have even reinstalled 98 just to make sure
it is ok. As well as running XP upgrade test
on 98 from the XP CD.

3) You verified your Ghost backup/clone?

98 ran fine from cloned disk, as did scandisk
I have even reinstalled 98 just to make sure
it is ok. As well as running XP upgrade test
on 98 from the XP CD.

Dave