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Error Message
I bought the win xp home upgrade disk at best buy last week. I'm running win me now. my motherboard is a soyo 6ba+III. cpu is PIII 550E. 192 mb ram. video card is a voodoo I choose 1 and then it goes to a black screen with a very dim windows logo. It just stays there, no error messages, no hd activity. nada.

Installation of Windows XP Home Edition
Even though I have been using the [CREATIVE LABS GEFORCE 2 MX 32MB PCI] in my system for almost a year with no problems, when I try to upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition, it says it has found a blocking problem which must be fixed before I can launch the upgrade. The problem is that "Setup has detected an

Windows 2000 to XP???
OEM will not upgrade. Windows XP Home or Pro? Windows 2000 will not upgrade to Windows XP Home. Since this is a Windows Update newsgroup and not an upgrade I installed windows 2000 again but need to upgrade it to XP. I have the upgrade disk but it gives me the following error: "Setup cannot ugrade your current

Upgrade from Windows XP Home (SP2) to Windows XP Pro fails
Over a fresh install of windows 98se, (which runs fine after installation) the windows xp home installation process gives me an error box during the preparing installation a stop error blue screen is displayed, saying there is an "unmountable boot volume" how do I fix this error and upgrade to windows xp home?

Windows XP Professional Upgrade
Windows XP Professional completely support NTFS and you CAN upgrade from Windows XP Home - regardless of the file system type running. What exact error message are you getting and when during the upgrade process - also ensure you are using a Retail Windows XP Professional CD and NOT an OEM one as OEM can only be

Unable to use Passport since XP upgrade
Carey Frisch [MVP] cnfri...@nospamgmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general Since a non-SP2 version of Windows XP Professional cannot upgrade over a version of Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 installed, you'll have to make a new Windows XP Pro CD with SP2 "slipstreamed", then use the new CD to upgrade over

Installation of Windows XP Home Edition
Wondering if someone might be able to help out, I'm trying to upgrade to Windows XP Home from Windows ME and at bootup I'm getting the error message: 'C:\Windows\System32\MSGINA.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.' Appreciate any insight you may have,

hard disk to hard disk exact copy
I know, had the same problems in windows 98 with a 1.1 Ghz system, had to upgrade to Windows XP Home. But don't worry, new Windows XP Pcs are cheap now. From this point either launching the game, or Settings, causes a system error bring forth a failure dialog titled "TRAOD", but 3 out of 5 times there's no way

Windows XP Professional Upgrade
It goes to the first install screen, then pops up an error screen that says plain as day. This copy of Windows XP for Dell will not install on this computer. Describe the XP CD. There are two different XP cds One is really flashy holographic and is labeled Upgrade Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002.

Error messages after installing XP professional
I got frustrated with it and decided to install my old Windows ME. That installed flawlessly. I then tried to do an upgrade with the Windows XP Home cd, and it got a little farther into the install, but then would produce a stop error saying something about a pfn(?) list is missing or corrupt.

Upgrade from Windows XP Home (SP2) to Windows XP Pro fails
C userb...@verizon.net microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Wondering if someone might be able to help out, I'm trying to upgrade to Windows XP Home from Windows ME and at bootup I'm getting the error message: 'C:\Windows\System32\MSGINA.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your

Using Dell OEM software to test non dell hardware
Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional is not only a valid upgrade option - but the easiest and least painful in most cases - because the change for the user is minor to none While we do make mistakes on occasion - I'm afraid on this one - it is not an MVP (but you) that has made an error in your post.

Loading upgrade to windows XP Home Edition
Joyce Ross anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I have tried several times to download Service Pack 1 for Windows XP Home Edition from Microsoft website. Each time the following error occurs "The Handle is Invalid". Do anyone know why this is happening?

XP Pro upgrade problem
I recently brought a laptop that came with Windows XP Home Edition SP2 and I wanted to upgrade to Windows XP Professionals. Everytime I attempted to do so I kept on getting an error message saying that the current version is newer than the one i'm about to install. I've tried unintall SP2, boot from winXP Pro

Installing Windows XP SP2 as Upgrade to Windows XP home Edition
I am currently running Windows 2000 Pro on my system. Due to a number of problems I was looking to change to Windows XP. I purchased the full up version as the MS website indicated this could not be done through an upgrade. When I attempted to install the Windows XP Home it gave me an error message that 2000 could

Windows Home Edition
I reloaded Windows 98 and purchased the upgrade of XP (Home Addition). Windows 98 loaded with no problem. The Upgrade XP will not load as it stops with a error message that my hard drive is corrupt and can not be repaired. It does not tell me how to fix this error and all file checks run come out ok.

Creating Web Application using vb.net
Ravi anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment I am receving Fatal Error on my PC when I am trying to upgrade Windows XP Home edition. I have already installed XP couple of months back, but java script was not working properly and therefore i tried to install XP again with

On line upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro ...
I have home installed and am trying to upgrade to professional with the same error message. How could there be a hardware problem when Home runs fine? Franz wrote: The upgrade to XP Pro failed with the error: Setup can not set the required Windows XP configuration information. This indicates an internal setup error

Blocking issue problem upgrading to Windows XP related to video card
_Nel...@adobeforums.com adobe pagemaker windows I have been recently experiencing errors following an upgrade to XP Home. Most noticably I have not been able to import or copy and paste text from my new Importing results in a "bad code" error and pasting from Word 2003, gives an error related to ANSI. Thanks, Rob.

Upgrade from Windows XP Home (SP2) to Windows XP Pro fails
R. Mauzy mau...@cox.net microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain When trying to upgrade windows xp home, I get the error message, unable to open page. Suggestions??