Hi.

A friend asked me to upgrade her computer from ME to XP and I've screwed up. I ran XP setup and formatted the drive but an error came up and I'm assuming that it's because she only has 32MB RAM. I really should of checked this first eh..DOH! So I've tried reinstalling ME with her product recovery disk and it sets up fine until set up tries to restart the system. It doesn't start back up! Now when I turn the computer on, it starts to load ME, then the screen "it is now safe to turn off your computer" appears and system shuts down. I've tried reinstalling ME but same thing happens over again. ME ran fine before. The only hardware difference is my 19' TFT. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Keith.

Just to add...I've tried starting in safe mode but the system still turns off.

Hi and welcome to PCHF!

Well, first off if you frmatted the har drive then all data on it was lost. Second, when you do an upgrade, you shouldn't have to format anything it just upgrades the windows files and adds new ones. Third, make sure that you format the system to FAT32 and try reinstalling.


Thanks,
Adam

I should've stated that it was a clean install and not an upgrade sorry. I eventually solved the problem by formating the disk in DOS and reinstalling. Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know Ke1th

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