Upgrading Home to Pro issue

[Guest]

I bought the upgrade XP Pro CD to upgrade my installation of XP Home. All
goes fine until the 32 minute mark when it just stays there. I let it run
all night and it never budged. At that point it is installing the network,
so I thought the network card might be hanging the install. I removed the
card and it still hangs. At the 34 min mark I was asked for an Nvidia driver
disk. I downloaded the driver it asked for from the net. I got a warning
asking if I really wanted to install this (even though it asked for the
file). I said OK and it hung as previously mentioned at the 43 min mark.
Help please!

 

[Guest]

Read "problems with xp pro" 4 posts after yours.

 

[Ron Martell]

I bought the upgrade XP Pro CD to upgrade my installation of XP Home. All
goes fine until the 32 minute mark when it just stays there. I let it run
all night and it never budged. At that point it is installing the network,
so I thought the network card might be hanging the install. I removed the
card and it still hangs. At the 34 min mark I was asked for an Nvidia driver
disk. I downloaded the driver it asked for from the net. I got a warning
asking if I really wanted to install this (even though it asked for the
file). I said OK and it hung as previously mentioned at the 43 min mark.
Help please!

Let's start at the beginning.

Are you certain that you need to upgrade to XP Pro? Except for
certain specific components and functions the two versions are
identical so unless you have a current or anticipated need for one of
these items there is no need for or value in doing the upgrade.

In particular there is zero difference in performance or stability
between the two versions except in the instance of a computer with to
CPUs on the motherboard, as XP Pro will use both of them whereas XP
Home will use only one. Note that this does not apply to a single
Pentium 4 CPU with hyperthreading, as both Home and Pro will use the
full capabilities of this.

I think that you want to uninstall that nVidia driver that you
installed, as that seems to have made the situation worse.

Are you using a USB keyboard and/or mouse on this computer? If so you
might want to try switching to a regular ps/2 connection, at least for
the duration of the install.

Also the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base may be of
some assistance:

Setup stops responding with 34 minutes remaining
Article ID : 828267
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=828267

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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