Sheesh... been working with PCs for 15 years but beginning to think I'm in over my head here! Here's the situation:
wanted to load Win XP Pro onto Compaq with Win XP Home Ed. ... XP Home wouldn't let me load XP Pro cuz it didn't have the latest updates and says it was an older version ... I reformatted HD using 98 CD (box has no floppy...grrr!) ... using just 1 primary dos partition for 160 gb HD ... try to install Win XP Pro but it goes to blue screen with session 3 initialization error message after the drivers load. I then backed out and loaded Win 2000 Pro... it loaded fine and ran so I then tried to upgrade to the Win XP Pro... but the setup started skipping files like crazy. Then attempted to do a full install of Win XP but, again, blue screen.
Going nuts trying to get this darned box working. I've never had so much trouble loading an OS. Would someone PLEASE throw me a rope here!?
Thanks a bunch!
Tee


























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