Upgrade from Windows 98 to XP - Unable to Start

[Guest]

Non-techie here. I finally bit the bullet and decided to upgrade from
Windows 98 to XP and did the install last night. Once done, everything
seemed to work perfectly - I could access the internet, all my programs,
files, etc. The computer needed to reboot to complete work I was trying to
do to set up a home network so my husband and I could share a printer. Since
shutting down, however, I've been unable to log back in. I get the following
message:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system FAT32
One of yoru disks needs to be check for consistency. You may cancel the
disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 2A5F-14F5
Windows is verifying files and folers...
(then it gives me the percentage of the work completed until 100%)
\WINDOWS\DUMP5baf.tmp is cross-linked on allocation unit 1009756.

This is where the program freezes (or would reboot until I turned off the
automatic reboot).

I'm running an IBM compatible machine. Don't know anything more about it or
how to find out....

I understood from the literature that I would have an opportunity to choose
either FAT432 or NTFS (not that those terms mean anything to me) but I don't
remember that being an option while installing. Perhaps I just need to
choose the NTFS because - ??? But how do I do that?

I am unable to reboot in safe mode - I just get a screen full of text (file
names? file locations?) and the computer makes a working, kind of chuffing
sound (makes the same sound when it stalls out ofter checking the disks for
consistency).

PLEASE HELP!!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Non-techie here. I finally bit the bullet and decided to upgrade
from Windows 98 to XP and did the install last night. Once done,
everything seemed to work perfectly - I could access the internet,
all my programs, files, etc. The computer needed to reboot to
complete work I was trying to do to set up a home network so my
husband and I could share a printer. Since shutting down, however,
I've been unable to log back in. I get the following message:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system FAT32
One of yoru disks needs to be check for consistency. You may
cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you
continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 2A5F-14F5
Windows is verifying files and folers...
(then it gives me the percentage of the work completed until 100%)
\WINDOWS\DUMP5baf.tmp is cross-linked on allocation unit 1009756.

This is where the program freezes (or would reboot until I turned
off the automatic reboot).

I'm running an IBM compatible machine. Don't know anything more
about it or how to find out....

I understood from the literature that I would have an opportunity
to choose either FAT432 or NTFS (not that those terms mean anything
to me) but I don't remember that being an option while installing.
Perhaps I just need to choose the NTFS because - ??? But how do I
do that?

I am unable to reboot in safe mode - I just get a screen full of
text (file names? file locations?) and the computer makes a
working, kind of chuffing sound (makes the same sound when it
stalls out ofter checking the disks for consistency).

PLEASE HELP!!

Sounds like your hard disk drive is bad.
Windows 98 probably just never touched the parts that were bad - Windows XP
was larger and made it into those.

Download the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostic utilities and run it
on the machine to check the drive for errors.

 

[DL]

You ran the compatibility check before you upgraded?
You backed up your data files prior to upgrading?

Perhaps use the win cd to perform a repair installation
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

If that cures the problem, first visit your PC/hw manu sites to get winxp
drivers for your hw, *before* you start any other work.

 

[Guest]

Non-techie here. I finally bit the bullet and decided to upgrade from
Windows 98 to XP and did the install last night. Once done, everything
seemed to work perfectly - I could access the internet, all my programs,
files, etc. The computer needed to reboot to complete work I was trying to
do to set up a home network so my husband and I could share a printer. Since
shutting down, however, I've been unable to log back in. I get the following
message:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system FAT32
One of yoru disks needs to be check for consistency. You may cancel the
disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 2A5F-14F5
Windows is verifying files and folers...
(then it gives me the percentage of the work completed until 100%)
\WINDOWS\DUMP5baf.tmp is cross-linked on allocation unit 1009756.

This is where the program freezes (or would reboot until I turned off the
automatic reboot).

I'm running an IBM compatible machine. Don't know anything more about it or
how to find out....

I understood from the literature that I would have an opportunity to choose
either FAT432 or NTFS (not that those terms mean anything to me) but I don't
remember that being an option while installing. Perhaps I just need to
choose the NTFS because - ??? But how do I do that?

I am unable to reboot in safe mode - I just get a screen full of text (file
names? file locations?) and the computer makes a working, kind of chuffing
sound (makes the same sound when it stalls out ofter checking the disks for
consistency).

PLEASE HELP!!

I installed my drive on a computer running Windows 98, did a disk scan and
found no errors. If it'snot my drive, any other ideas about what is going
on??

 

[DL]

You upgraded to winxp, did you then update/install drivers for your hw,
before you did anything else?
Running scan disk is not going to help

 

[Guest]

You upgraded to winxp, did you then update/install drivers for your hw,
before you did anything else?
Running scan disk is not going to help




I am unable to boot - I'm caught in a scan/restart cycle, so I never actually get anywhere I can do anything.

 

[DL]

Try a repair installation of Winxp
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
If successfull you need to install winxp drivers for the hardware on your
system *first*
ie motherboard chipset, graphics card (If seperate card) modem etc
Then run winupdate for critical updates.Do NOT use win update for drivers.
Once done & sys is running OK, only then do you start installing apps and
configuring your PC.

actually get anywhere I can do anything.