At 16:59 8/27/2002 +0200, you wrote: >At 23:26 8/26/2002 +0200, you wrote: > >Snip< > >Hello All, I need help. > >I've just installed Windows XP on a PIII 450, 512 ram 2 X 20Gig Hard Drives > >Its a duel boot with Windows ME on one disk, and XP on the other. ME has > >been running for over a year with no problem whatsoever. > >When I boot in to XP its ok till the Log in page, I enter my password and I > >get the "Welcome page "At this point the whole computer freezes. > > > >Meir! Based on your information given there are many reasons why you are >experiencing the freeze up at log in. > >Tell us more about your system. What did you do in the way of installing >the new OS? Did you know that the boot.ini will reside on your ME >drive? Also your NTdetect.com and other NT specific files. I have used XP >before and found it to be less difficult to use than 2000. I am guessing >that the way you installed is the problem, but without more information I >can only make a guess. When you booted up did the boot menu come up and >when you chose XP did you get any error messages before Login? Login has >its own memory space with XP now. > >But please tell us more. > >Barry here is the full story >I installed inside Windows ME, when I tried it via Dos I got a message >"Cannot run set-up in dos mode" The install went fine I got asked if I >wanted to upgrade or make a separate install, I made a separate install. . >After a few minutes I got the choice to put the Window files in a specific >drive so I chose my E: drive which has 9 gig free on it. >BTW when I got the question about the type of formatting I stayed with >FAT32. After about 50 minutes the install was complete, and it booted in to >XP I played with it for a short while I did not change any settings but >thought I would reboot just to see that it worked ok. This is when I got the >problem of sticking What happens is after I put in the password the welcome >page comes up then the music the music stops in mid stream and the mouse >freezes on the screen.... I have tried booting from the safe mode menu where >it says last known good boot configuration but that does not work either. > I can boot in to safe mode and that's it. >There is a boot menu of 30 seconds XP is the default and no error messages >came up at all. > >Any help would be welcomed. >Meir
Meir! All I can say is you messed up big time. Just restore the backup to ME and start over again using the data on this site: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_9xupgrade.asp The above is a step by step tutorial if you will on upgrading to XP. Which you will see is truly not an upgrade but a clean install. In the process XP will backup your previous version of ME. Btw, how many hours difference is it from you to me? It is 9:47 AM here currently. Good luck, Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
