win98 upgrade with win xp pro (full) -> unable to find domain/unable to login

[blackdir]

Dear All,

I bought an original win XP pro (full edition - no upgrade) which I
wanted to use to upgrade a Win98 PC at home. Since I know that full
install is better than upgrade I booted from the XP Pro CD and decided
to install it in a different directory (\WINXP instead of \WINDOWS
where WIN98 is installed).

The installation wen't fine, during the process I have been asked for a
username I want to use and I provided blackdir with no password.

Now, the installation is finished but I'm not able to login with either
blackdir nor Administrator. The message I'm getting is unable to
contact the specified domain... the point is that I didn't specify any
domain in the installation, nor I have ever had one at home.

I tried to boot in safe mode and login with the Administrator account
(no password) but I'm getting the same message: unable to contact the
specified domain... (btw in the login mask is not possible to specify
any domain)

Does anyone have an idea on why this is happening?
Any suggestion on how to solve this? (do I need to return the full
edition and just buy a XP HOME upgrade one?)

Regards,
Timur

Note: I'm not very familiar with XP, so please forgive me if I followed
a stupid upgrade path...

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You should not have installed Windows XP on the same partition
as Windows 98. An operating system should always be installed
on a separate partition. I would suggest performing a "clean install"
of Windows XP.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

--
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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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| Dear All,
|
| I bought an original win XP pro (full edition - no upgrade) which I
| wanted to use to upgrade a Win98 PC at home. Since I know that full
| install is better than upgrade I booted from the XP Pro CD and decided
| to install it in a different directory (\WINXP instead of \WINDOWS
| where WIN98 is installed).
|
| The installation wen't fine, during the process I have been asked for a
| username I want to use and I provided blackdir with no password.
|
| Now, the installation is finished but I'm not able to login with either
| blackdir nor Administrator. The message I'm getting is unable to
| contact the specified domain... the point is that I didn't specify any
| domain in the installation, nor I have ever had one at home.
|
| I tried to boot in safe mode and login with the Administrator account
| (no password) but I'm getting the same message: unable to contact the
| specified domain... (btw in the login mask is not possible to specify
| any domain)
|
| Does anyone have an idea on why this is happening?
| Any suggestion on how to solve this? (do I need to return the full
| edition and just buy a XP HOME upgrade one?)
|
| Regards,
| Timur
|
| Note: I'm not very familiar with XP, so please forgive me if I followed
| a stupid upgrade path...

 

[blackdir]

Carey Frisch [MVP] ha scritto:

You should not have installed Windows XP on the same partition
as Windows 98. An operating system should always be installed
on a separate partition. I would suggest performing a "clean install"
of Windows XP.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

I would prefer not to format the WIN98 partition...

would it be OK if I just remove from that partition both the \windows
directory (currently containing win98) and the \winxp directory
(currently containing the not working XP installation) and do a new XP
installation booting from my Win XP PRO CD?

Thanks,
Timur

 

[Brian Conner]

Back up and reformat with xp pro. that only takes seconds rather than
deleting. do you have another operating system dedicated to that deleting on
another partition?

 

[blackdir]

Back up and reformat with xp pro. that only takes seconds rather than
deleting. do you have another operating system dedicated to that deleting on
another partition?

Yes, my main OS (on another partition) is Linux.

Actually I solved the problem and now I have Win XP Pro up and running
(together with Win98 and Linux).
For those that might be interested I'm posting how I was able to do it.

- Using Linux I moved the \windows directory to \old-win98 (if you
don't have Linux installed you can use a LiveCD version like Knoppix)
- I installed WIN XP Pro as a new installation in \windows (without
formatting)
- when asked to overwrite MBR (master boot record) I did it and when
WIN XP rebooted during installation I saw that my GRUB bootloader
didn't show up anymore
- once WIN XP installation was finished I rebooted with SuSE
installation CD, I booted from installed Linux OS and run fdisk to
re-enable the /boot partition
- after I run Yast to restore grub & the proper MBR
finally I rebooted and I had the standard Grub bootloader: I choose
WINXP and once WINXP was running I modified boot.ini in order to be
able to load also win98 whenever I wanted ( I plan to remove Win98 in
future once I'm sure that I reinstalled all the application/data under
WINXP)

I hope that my explanation is clear enough and that it could be usefull
to other people interested in having Win98, WINXP and Linux on the same
hard disk.

regards,
Timur