In the hour of 04:59 PM 8/27/2002 +0200, Meir Cahal spoke this: >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, do you have any hardware installed that is not supported by XP? Was the E: drive wiped clean of all formats or was it previously formatted with FAT32, XP prefers to do it's own formatting work. Have you tried the XP repair tool? Boot from the XP cd and choose to repair the installation, follow all prompts and reboot. If this does nothing then try reinstalling XP again, on some systems it can be just as temperamental (or more so) than other versions of windows. Peter Kaulback ============= 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 =====================================================
