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dino89

hi to all on this forum

? started upgrading my laptop to Xp pro from millenium all was going well entered windows setup and got at least 3/4 if not all the way through then crashed and all i get now is a flashing colon and the floppy drive light stays on .entered the bios and the floppy appears disabled but when i disable it in bios no light sytays on so may be floppy is dead ,any ideas whats gone wrong? and how to solve it probably without a floppy drive !!
? ? ? Dean

joe5

Hi Dean.

Let's see , how big is the partition that you used and how much free space was on there?
And did you get an "Upgrade report" during upgrading and did it give any errors? Also did you get an option to backup youre old windows installation?

dino89

Hi Dean.

Let's see , how big is the partition that you used and how much free space was on there?
And did you get an "Upgrade report" during upgrading and did it give any errors? Also did you get an option to backup youre old windows installation?

thanks for the reply
the partition is at least 10gb and not sure how much free space was there!! didnt get upgrade report ony a box saying some devices may not function had this before as i have succesfully had xp upgrade running with no probs on this note book
didnt get any option to back up my old windows installation
Dean

joe5

If you had XP on there before then indeed it probebly wont be a compatibility issue. But space might be a problem but i would think (hope) windows would be smart enough to check if you have enough free space.
If you upgrade from ME to XP you need alot free space to copy all youre documents and installed programs before the installation even starts.

Upgrading Windows 9x/Me to Windows XP is actually a bit of a misnomer. When you upgrade such a system, Microsoft actually examines your installation, moves your documents and personalized settings to a backup location, and then performs a clean install of XP. Then, it goes back and applies those personalized settings to the new OS and moves your documents into the correct location (My Documents, which is located in a different place in XP than it was in 9x/Me). This is why it requires so much free space for the upgrade, by the way.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase..._9xupgrade.asp

dino89

looked at that site but doesnt really offer anything i know windows was almsost if in deed not fully installed before crash so really at a loss
a little more info to add to my reply above been into bios and cant highlight cd rom it just says installed ?not sure if this anything or not every time i start up it appears to be rworking with the door light flashing but only getting flashing cursor ,ihave usb ?external cd rom is there a way to boot from it to elliminate the internal drive
Dean

joe5

You also can't boot from cd and floppy anymore?

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