Problem is descsribed in Microsoft Knowledge Base
Article - 308402  The recommendation is to create
installation diskettes and boot to the recovery console
from them -  This is NOT working for me and results in

I am trying to upgrade a win2k pro workstation to XP PRO.
Everytime I try to run the upgrade it gives me the
message. No valid system partitions, Setup is unable to
continue. Any Ideas?

If I use the wizard to send files from my old computer to
my new one, are the files "copied" or "cut"?  I don't
want the files deleted from the old computer as we will
be using it as a backup.  Thanks for any info.

I'm having difficulty getting two XP partitions to boot and be completely
independent of each other. Would appreciate someone's help/ideas.
I have the following:
HD0: (60gb)

i have an xp home cd, not the upgrade.
after selecting the ntfs (quick).. going through a step or
two after that, i get an error message saying something
about setup can't install the sp1 file or something like

I have a version of XP-Home currently on my machine. I need Win XP Pro in order to utilize IIS. I have purchased a larger/faster hard drive for the machine.  What I want to do is Install XP-Pro as the active partition and then install my existing XP-home edition on a second ...

i've been looking for this question for a long time, can't
find anyone with the same issue..
after partitioning and formatting my c drive, i reboot and
insert the xp cd.  i get through the first few steps..

How to turn off syncronizing on XP Pro?

After a problematical upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro
which hangs during the upgrade process requiring reboots
to proceed and then finally permanently hangs during the
final temp file cleanup.

My hard-disk is partitioned into two - both FAT32 types,
one for data, the other for windows xp home.
When re-installing windows xp, it has now installed a
bootloader that allows me to try to boot my data partition.

I jus baught my mother board hard drive and video card.  They are all compatibale with windows xp.  Im having problems with windows xp axualy starting it sais it installed just fine.  I have the oem version of xp home.  I try to boot to windows xp with the hard drive and i get a ...

Is it "legal" (ie, allowed by Microsoft) to extract the
boot image from the XP CD for using in the process of
making a SP slipstreamed CD?
Cheers.

CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION PLEASE

I have recently upgraded to XP Pro (from Win98)
I intended to install the new operating system on a new hard drive, leaving the old system intact (just in case)
The problem is the old drive now contains both boot sectors, with the XP operating system on the new hard drive. The ...

Here's the scenario:
Our company is running a Windows 2000 domain with the
majority of the users on WinXP.  All of the machines are
joined to the domain and users are mapped to their "home"