XP Installation problems- please help!

[01steven]

I have a laptop which was runnning Windows 2000 and I'm trying to
install Windows XP on it. I did manage to get it on but I must have
made some mistake somewhere as on startup it was giving me the option
to boot into either XP or Windows 2000.

Before explaining the current status I should just explain exactly
what I'd like to acheive ideally.
One hard drive (C) with the full amount of storage space (10GB)
running Windows XP. That's it! Nothing more, nothing less.

So I have tried to do a few things- deleting partition, re-installing
XP and now I'm really confused!

When I startup now, I get 3 choices from the boot screen:

Windows XP Home Edition
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Setup

If I select Windows XP Home Edition it says:

Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware

configuration problem. COuld not read from the selected boot

disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the

Windows documemntation about hardware disk configuration and

your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

If I select Windows 2000 Professional it gets me into Windows 2000. If
I go to Computer Management>Disk Management there it reads:
C: 5GB FAT32 - Primary Partition
Unallocated 4.36GB
Right-clicking on either of these doesn't give me an option to either
delete or format.

If I try Windows XP Home Edition Setup it says:
Welcome to Setup
To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER
Insert the CD labeled Windows XP Home Edition CD ROM
I then put in the disk and press enter.
I then get the following screen:

The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned
space on this computer

9586MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MPR]
C: Partition1 (VAIONOTE) [FAT32] 5122MB 979MB free
Unpartioned space 4463MB

If I press 'D' on C, it says: Setup is unable to perform the requested
operation on the slected partition. This partition contains temporary
Setup files that are required to complete the installation.
'D' doesn't work on the unpartitioned space.

If try to set up on C, it says: The partition you have chosen is too
full to contain Windows XP which requires a drive with at least 1033MB
of free disk space.

I also have the following options:
To repair a Windows XP intallation using Recovery Console,

press R
To quite Setup without installing Windows XP press F3

So, what do I do????!!!

 

[Malke]

01steven wrote:

(snip)

You have multiposted this all over the newsgroups and you have lengthy
answers in several of them. See below for why multiposting is Bad and find
the answers in the other groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use Google
Groups Advanced Search and search for your name.

Malke

 

[01steven]

Thanks- I know I've posted this in a few groups. In my experience it's
the only way of getting a decent answer. As proved in this case
whereby although I have 'lengthy answers' as you said, they're not
offering anything I don't already know and if my original post had
been read properly these sort of answers wouldn't have been posted.

 

[John John (MVP)]

Multi-posting wastes everybody's time, including yours! Instead of
getting a concerted effort to help you solve your problem you are
getting answers which may have already been provided by other
respondents in other groups. Additionally, if a potential helper reads
a reply from another poster he may be able to add supporting information
or additional information to clarify the previous answers. When you
multi-post none of this happens, it is truly a waste of time, many
helpers don't bother offering help once they see that a post has been
multi-posted, instead of increasing your chances of obtaining help you
decrease them.

John

 

[01steven]

Appreciate your opinion, but I have to say I have had a lot of
experience in forums and simply don't agree with you at all!
You get lots of people who ONLY look at one group so this way you
maximise your chances of getting a result!

 

[John John (MVP)]

Obviously you don't understand the difference between Cross-posting and
multi-posting. You would do well to read the information provided in
the links that Malke gave you. Cross-post if you must but don't multi-post!

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Appreciate your opinion, but I have to say I have had a lot of
experience in forums and simply don't agree with you at all!
You get lots of people who ONLY look at one group so this way you
maximise your chances of getting a result!

That's completely wrong.

The proper way to accomplish that is to *crosspost* (send a single
message to multiple groups at once). Do not multipost (send multiple
messages to multiple groups one at a time).

All you are going to accomplish by multiposting is wasting everyone's
time, getting poorer answers than you should, and annoying the folks
who would otherwise be glad to help you.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:52:28 -0300, "John John (MVP)"


New MVP award, John? Congratulations!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

For the original conversation in its entirity:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...5/a03c5f7b235949f6?lnk=st&q=#a03c5f7b235949f6

** Notice this is just the link for the conversation that was started by the
original poster in ONE of the MANY newsgroups. If it had been crossposted
as opposed to multiposted - they would all contain the same information and
discussion and still be seen by everyone in each of the individual
newsgroups as well.



01steven wrote:

So, what do I do????!!!

You have multiposted this all over the newsgroups and you have
lengthy answers in several of them. See below for why multiposting
is Bad and find the answers in the other groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use
Google Groups Advanced Search and search for your name

Thanks- I know I've posted this in a few groups. In my experience
it's the only way of getting a decent answer. As proved in this case
whereby although I have 'lengthy answers' as you said, they're not
offering anything I don't already know and if my original post had
been read properly these sort of answers wouldn't have been posted.

Multi-posting wastes everybody's time, including yours! Instead of
getting a concerted effort to help you solve your problem you are
getting answers which may have already been provided by other
respondents in other groups. Additionally, if a potential helper
reads a reply from another poster he may be able to add supporting
information or additional information to clarify the previous
answers. When you multi-post none of this happens, it is truly a
waste of time, many helpers don't bother offering help once they
see that a post has been multi-posted, instead of increasing your
chances of obtaining help you decrease them.

Appreciate your opinion, but I have to say I have had a lot of
experience in forums and simply don't agree with you at all!
You get lots of people who ONLY look at one group so this way you
maximise your chances of getting a result!

Incorrect.

Multiposting is manually posting the same message in several newsgroups
individually.
Crossposting is posting the same message in several newsgroups all at once.

Let's say you have access to three newsgroups. We'll call them A, B & C.
You wish to post in all three of these newsgroups because you feel your
topic is relevant to all three and you know that some people who frequent A
never go into B or C and so on for each of those who might be in any of the
single or multiple newsgroups. What would be the most efficient way to make
sure everyone in all three newsgroups sees your posting and can respond to
it? Crossposting or Multiposting?

Crossposting.

This allows (just as multiposting would) everyone in each of the three
newsgroups to view your original message. The difference comes when people
respond (with a proper newsreader) to your original posting. If you
crossposted, they will respond in ALL three newsgroups - no matter if they
have ever or will ever actually open any but the newsgroup they actually
read your posting in. This is good for you (you can usually just check one
newsgroup for ALL answers from the three newsgroups you crossposted into)
and good for those answering (less bandwidth used downloading a message they
read in another group, they get to read responses from people they may have
never ran into as they do not go into one or more newsgroups that these
people may only visit, etc...)

Multiposting means you have to check all three newsgroups and you have
started three seperate conversations. They have no relationship to one
another but you.

Equate it to being in meeting with 3 other people. You and person one are
in a conference room in New York city. Person two is in Australia and
person three is in Spain. Crossposting would be like teleconferencing with
the three people. You and person one are in the same room - no problem
there. However - if you multipost, it is like asking person one a question,
catching a flight to Australia and asking person two the question and then
catching a flight to Spain and asking person three the same question. Then
you have to go back to New York city to get Person one's answer... Same for
the other two. If you crossposted (teleconferenced) - you can ask the
question while in the room with Person one (and on the phone/video
conference call) with Person's two and three and they all hear and can all
participate in the same discussion about said question.

Having multiple people answer the same question where they can all see the
answers will help ensure you get the correct answer or many correct answers.
It cuts down on inaccuracy because somone else may chime in and say that
someone else is incorrect. Truthfully - there is little disadvantage in
crossposting (other than the fact that many people do it all the time and
without thinking.) Mutliposting has little to no advantage. It usually
annoys people who read the same message more than once, can lead (more
readily) to incorrect answers and does not allow for cross-group discussions
that might lead to a better answer than even hoped for.

Just look at your profile... And how many newsgroups you posted
(multiposted) this same question to and how different the conversations
went....
http://groups.google.com/groups/pro...ACB7RI0i8IiqxXvKryRRLknHqZiDvCVswhrZ6TQxKj0ww

 

[John John (MVP)]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:52:28 -0300, "John John (MVP)"


New MVP award, John? Congratulations!

Thanks, Ken.

John

 

[Xandros]

Don't worry about it 01steven. Post the way that works for you.

 

[Xandros]

Because you did not mention that you are attempting to upgrade from Win 2000
to XP I am assuming that you simply want a fresh install of XP. To do that
boot with your XP CD. Select the option to Repair a Windows XP installation
using Recovery Console press R. Use the Recovery Console to delete all
partitions on your drive by using the DISKPART command.

To learn how to load the Recovery Console look in the XP section here
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxprcons.html
When you arrive at the command prompt simply type DISKPART and remove all
partitions. There is no need to format. When finished simply restart the
computer with the XP CD still in the drive and it will launch. Then run the
option to Setup Windows.
--

Xandros

I have a laptop which was runnning Windows 2000 and I'm trying to
install Windows XP on it. I did manage to get it on but I must have
made some mistake somewhere as on startup it was giving me the option
to boot into either XP or Windows 2000.

Before explaining the current status I should just explain exactly
what I'd like to acheive ideally.
One hard drive (C) with the full amount of storage space (10GB)
running Windows XP. That's it! Nothing more, nothing less.

So I have tried to do a few things- deleting partition, re-installing
XP and now I'm really confused!

When I startup now, I get 3 choices from the boot screen:

Windows XP Home Edition
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Setup

If I select Windows XP Home Edition it says:

Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware

configuration problem. COuld not read from the selected boot

disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the

Windows documemntation about hardware disk configuration and

your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

If I select Windows 2000 Professional it gets me into Windows 2000. If
I go to Computer Management>Disk Management there it reads:
C: 5GB FAT32 - Primary Partition
Unallocated 4.36GB
Right-clicking on either of these doesn't give me an option to either
delete or format.

If I try Windows XP Home Edition Setup it says:
Welcome to Setup
To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER
Insert the CD labeled Windows XP Home Edition CD ROM
I then put in the disk and press enter.
I then get the following screen:

The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned
space on this computer

9586MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MPR]
C: Partition1 (VAIONOTE) [FAT32] 5122MB 979MB free
Unpartioned space 4463MB

If I press 'D' on C, it says: Setup is unable to perform the requested
operation on the slected partition. This partition contains temporary
Setup files that are required to complete the installation.
'D' doesn't work on the unpartitioned space.

If try to set up on C, it says: The partition you have chosen is too
full to contain Windows XP which requires a drive with at least 1033MB
of free disk space.

I also have the following options:
To repair a Windows XP intallation using Recovery Console,

press R
To quite Setup without installing Windows XP press F3

So, what do I do????!!!