Birquah said:
Whenever I try to upgrade to Pro with SP2 from Home with SP1 I
get an error saying the installer cannot copy the file:
akaasz7q.sys. Anyone know where to get this file or what I
should do?
Thier is no "upgrade" from home to pro,you need to perform a clean
install of pro.The upgrade is for older windows OS.
Actually, there is an upgrade from Home with SP1 to Pro with SP2,
the whole thing is an upgrade. So, if anyone can actually help,
that would be great.
Birquah,
You will have to excuse Andrew E.; he is 'special' - we think. From his
unorthodox posting stype to many incorrect answers - this is just another
fine example of Andrew E. being.... Andrew Eish... *grin*
As for the file.... "akaasz7q.sys"; my google search brings up nothing and I
have no such file on my system - so my suspicion is that you should cleanup
your machine some before trying to upgrade from Windows XP Home to Windows
XP Professional (which - BTW - is possible from any version of Windows XP
Home to a later service-pack'd version of Windows XP Professional and is one
of the easier/smoother of the upgrades for the end-user to handle...)
By cleanup - I mean uninstall unnecessary software, run a few antispyware
applications (3+) on your system, run a couple of full antivirus scans,
update your hardware drivers direct from each hardware component
manufacturer's web page (support --> downloads areas), make sure you have
all other operating system patches from
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
and make sure all of your other applications have their latest patches from
the software's web support pages. Once you have done all that - backup your
important files (documents, pictures, favorites/bookmarks, installation
media, product keys, email, contacs and so on...) and run a full CHKDSK on
your system drive followed by a defragmentation BEFORE you reboot and then
start the upgrade from inside Windows XP.
