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upgrading os
Name: c_pantel Date: July 16, 2005 at 12:35:49 Pacific OS: me CPU/Ram: 1.6/256
Comment:
when i run the windows xp upgrade and restarts it says it can't because my hdd is corrupted...what do i do?
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: July 17, 2005 at 02:09:18 Pacific
Reply:
c_pantel, FWIW, most of the folks I've heard from said essentially the same thing. Seems the upgrade to XP doesn't work nearly as well as the CD version with a clean install. Maybe M$ would rather sell it than give it away? BTW, I like XP a lot better (more goodies), but mine was a clean install as opposed to an upgrade. The addition of the SP2 service pack to XP demands a machine clean of malware to work, perhaps the ME upgrade's the same?? Scandisk, Defrag, scans, etc. HTH. Ed in Texas.
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