upgrade to professional

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Joe Mccullach

I had home edition and decided it is crap and wanted to
upgrade to xp professional and now it will now it just
restarts. During the upgrade it said that certain files
could not copy so I hit enter to retry the install so I
skipped about 5 files the files were around the 87% done
area. The installation finished and it restarts before it
even gets to your com puter screen saying setup is
rebooting. I have tried all the safety modes all of them.
Nothing is letting that system start up. Please help!
 
I had home edition and decided it is crap and wanted to
upgrade to xp professional and now it will now it just
restarts. During the upgrade it said that certain files
could not copy so I hit enter to retry the install so I
skipped about 5 files the files were around the 87% done
area. The installation finished and it restarts before it
even gets to your com puter screen saying setup is
rebooting. I have tried all the safety modes all of them.
Nothing is letting that system start up. Please help!
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Sounds like this could be a problem with RAM. If you have a convenient way of
swapping it out to check it(i.e. a spare stick or borrow one from a friend)
that might be a good place to start. The fact that there were no problems with
Win 9x/ME is no indication that the RAM is good. XP "works" it much more
vigorously than the older OS's did.

HTH,
John


"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***
 
Joe said:
I had home edition and decided it is crap and wanted to
upgrade to xp professional and now it will now it just
restarts. During the upgrade it said that certain files
could not copy so I hit enter to retry the install so I
skipped about 5 files the files were around the 87% done
area. The installation finished and it restarts before it
even gets to your com puter screen saying setup is
rebooting. I have tried all the safety modes all of them.
Nothing is letting that system start up. Please help!
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Since the "problem" you are fixing is that you decided XP Home is
"crap", then fixing this problem by upgrading to XP Professional is
unlikely to work. You are likely to notice no difference.

Hard to tell from your description of these symptoms, but could be that
something is wrong with the hard disk (which prevents the file copy?).
 
Joe Mccullach said:
I had home edition and decided it is crap and wanted to
upgrade to xp professional and now it will now it just
restarts. During the upgrade it said that certain files
could not copy so I hit enter to retry the install so I
skipped about 5 files the files were around the 87% done
area. The installation finished and it restarts before it
even gets to your com puter screen saying setup is
rebooting. I have tried all the safety modes all of them.
Nothing is letting that system start up. Please help!
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The two versions of Windows XP are absolutely and totally identical
except for the relatively few added features and functions which are
found only in XP Pro.

Therefore whatever it was about XP Home that you considered to be crap
is also going to be there in XP Pro.

If it could not copy the files then that could mean that the XP Pro
Upgrade CD you were using is dirty or damaged in some way. Try
cleaning the surface of the CD by washing it with a warm water and a
soft cloth. Dry it thoroughly and try the install again.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
Ron said:
The two versions of Windows XP are absolutely and totally identical
except for the relatively few added features and functions which are
found only in XP Pro.

Therefore whatever it was about XP Home that you considered to be crap
is also going to be there in XP Pro.

If it could not copy the files then that could mean that the XP Pro
Upgrade CD you were using is dirty or damaged in some way. Try
cleaning the surface of the CD by washing it with a warm water and a
soft cloth. Dry it thoroughly and try the install again.
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And as an additional comment, if the installation failed, you may have
bad hardware. MS operating system installation failures are usually
related to bad RAM and/or bad hard drive. Before you try another
installation of any operating system, do some hardware diagnosis,
starting with RAM testing and then moving on to the hard drive and
motherboard. If you can't do this yourself, then take the machine to a
good local computer shop.

Malke
 
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