Upgrading 2000 Pro to XP Pro

[Don Madsen]

I am attempting to upgrade my Windows 2000 Pro system to XP Pro. I am using
a very early fill XP CD which has never been used until now. The system has
a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with USB 2 ports. I have run disk checks
and defragged before starting. The installation proceeds to the final
restart and if I wait a very long time (maybe 30 minutes and come back the
system may have started (I tried several times before discoving the long
wait sometimes worked). Then looking at Device Manager showed a problem with
the USB Host Controller (the motherboard CD indicates that XP SP1 and later
do not need another driver). If that driver is fixed, I have had some
success with rebooting and have one time gotten the system to work. Then
installing SP2 caused many problems (it did install a different USB host
controller. Is it possible that a full XP SP2 CD would work and would
Microsoft provide such a replacement?

 

[Michael Stevens]

I am attempting to upgrade my Windows 2000 Pro system to XP Pro. I am
using a very early fill XP CD which has never been used until now.
The system has a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with USB 2 ports. I
have run disk checks and defragged before starting. The installation
proceeds to the final restart and if I wait a very long time (maybe
30 minutes and come back the system may have started (I tried several
times before discoving the long wait sometimes worked). Then looking
at Device Manager showed a problem with the USB Host Controller (the
motherboard CD indicates that XP SP1 and later do not need another
driver). If that driver is fixed, I have had some success with
rebooting and have one time gotten the system to work. Then
installing SP2 caused many problems (it did install a different USB
host controller. Is it possible that a full XP SP2 CD would work and
would Microsoft provide such a replacement?

No and doubtful. If the XP SP1 version won't work I doubt you would have
better results with a SP2 version.
They might replace a damaged, lost or defective CD if you have the proper
proof of purchase documentation, but I have not heard of any replacement to
a newer SP version on request.
Have you tried removing everything but the keyboard, mouse and video?
Any particular reason you "have" to upgrade this OLD computer? Why not use
your XP Pro on some new hardware and network it with the Win 2000 system? A
new XP Home system starts at around $300 and it is probably much more
powerful than the system you intend to upgrade. Use the XP Pro to upgrade
from Home.


Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
Contact Microsoft.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#need

 

[***** charles]

I am attempting to upgrade my Windows 2000 Pro system to XP Pro. I am using
a very early fill XP CD which has never been used until now. The system has
a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with USB 2 ports. I have run disk checks
and defragged before starting. The installation proceeds to the final
restart and if I wait a very long time (maybe 30 minutes and come back the
system may have started (I tried several times before discoving the long
wait sometimes worked). Then looking at Device Manager showed a problem with
the USB Host Controller (the motherboard CD indicates that XP SP1 and later
do not need another driver). If that driver is fixed, I have had some
success with rebooting and have one time gotten the system to work. Then
installing SP2 caused many problems (it did install a different USB host
controller. Is it possible that a full XP SP2 CD would work and would
Microsoft provide such a replacement?

Is there are particular reason for upgrading rather that doing a full
install
from scratch (better way)? Most of the time with install problems, it
boils down to some hardware problem. Especially if the hardware being
used is on the hcl. To really check a hard drive one must get the diags
from the manufacturer and do a full diag, which means that the disk must
be written to and read from to be tested. With this procedure you loose
all of what is on the drive. Then you'll have to do a full install anyway.
I have found that most of the time M$ software doesn't do nearly as good
a job at finding problems as the hard drive manufacturers' software. So
my recommendation is to backup/copy whatever data you need from the
computer and then run the hd diags, and then do a full install. If you do
this, you'll find that your computer will probably work a lot better in the
long run. OEM/Retail XP Pro with SP1 and OEM/Retail XP Pro with
SP2 are fundamentally the same. If it doesn't work with the earlier one
it probably won't work with the later one.

M$ should/may replace but only if yours is a Retail.

charles.....