Upgrading Windows ME to Windows XP Home Edition

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JD Skannal - 29 Oct 2003 06:04 GMT

Tried to upgrade OS from Windows ME to XP Home Edition.
During setup, the program stops/stalls halfway
at "Preparing Installation". After pressing "Esc" key to
exit Setup, the program tells setup stop either because I
canceled installation (which I didn't) or there was some
type of internal error (but does not tell me anything
about the specific error). Help--any suggestions?

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darkrats - 29 Oct 2003 07:10 GMT

You did cancel when you pressed ESC.

The install program does look like it hangs at "preparing installation", but
you may have to be patient and wait a while. On my previouse machine
(466MHZ) the pause was about 8 minutes.

darkrats

> Tried to upgrade OS from Windows ME to XP Home Edition.
> During setup, the program stops/stalls halfway
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> type of internal error (but does not tell me anything
> about the specific error). Help--any suggestions?

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JD Skannal - 29 Oct 2003 18:04 GMT

Thanks for your speedy reply...darkrats

I've tried to install XP on three occasions. The first
time it hanged/stalled for about one hour. The second and
third times the pause was overnight (about 8-9 hours).
This is on a 1.2 GHZ machine with 512MB/PC2100 of memory.

Any other avenues that I can try???

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>You did cancel when you pressed ESC.
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