XP Home upgrade

[Guest]

I currently have WIN ME on our home PC. I start to upgrade it today. During
the upgrade XP kept looping through the preparation process. In an effort to
stop the looping I had it boot from the CD.

Now I am getting an error message that "Setup is unable to verify drive C:.

If I boot the computer from the C: drive I get the following error: "Window
could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\windows\inf\biosinfo.inf"

There are files on the harddrive that I want to retrieve. Is this possible
at this point?

Thanks in Advance

Bransen

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

I currently have WIN ME on our home PC. I start to upgrade it today. During
the upgrade XP kept looping through the preparation process. In an effort to
stop the looping I had it boot from the CD.

Now I am getting an error message that "Setup is unable to verify drive C:.

If I boot the computer from the C: drive I get the following error: "Window
could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\windows\inf\biosinfo.inf"

There are files on the harddrive that I want to retrieve. Is this possible
at this point?

Thanks in Advance

Bransen

1) Are you able to boot the HD on which the files you want to recover
are?
2) Are you able to boot to Windows ME?
3) Has the Windows ME partition been deleted yet?
4) Are you able to read the file structure of "C:" after booting using
a Windows ME startup floppy?

If you can answer ANY of the above questions in the "affirmative", you
should be able to recover the files.

Why you suddenly thought about recovering the files AFTER trying to
install XP I will NEVER know or understand. Do file recovery BEFORE
doing any major changes to your HD structure such as installing a new
OS.

It appears that you are going to have to do a "Clean" installation of
XP AFTER deleting all partitions using Windows ME fdisk, so first,
run "scandisk.exe /f", then recover those files IMMEDIATELY.


Donald L McDaniel
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[DL]

And whats wrong with doing a clean install with the XP cd, you can also
delete partitions etc with it?

 

[Guest]

1) Are you able to boot the HD on which the files you want to recover
are?
2) Are you able to boot to Windows ME?
3) Has the Windows ME partition been deleted yet?
4) Are you able to read the file structure of "C:" after booting using
a Windows ME startup floppy?

If you can answer ANY of the above questions in the "affirmative", you
should be able to recover the files.

Why you suddenly thought about recovering the files AFTER trying to
install XP I will NEVER know or understand. Do file recovery BEFORE
doing any major changes to your HD structure such as installing a new
OS.

It appears that you are going to have to do a "Clean" installation of
XP AFTER deleting all partitions using Windows ME fdisk, so first,
run "scandisk.exe /f", then recover those files IMMEDIATELY.


Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the original thread.
If you must reply via email, remove the obvious
from my email address before sending.
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I should have backed up the files prior to doing the upgrade. However, my
impression was that doing the upgrade as opposed t a clean install would
work. Lesson learned.

To answer your questions:

1) no
2) no
3) I am not sure, I don't think so.
4)I havent tried that,I will this morning.

Thanks for you response.