the computer can not open window

OtheHill April 16, 2013 at 10:14:45

You need to provide more detail than you have. What versions of Windows are you trying to install and what hardware do you have? Explain what you are doing and what is happening. Win98 & Win2000 both have some hardware restrictions.

my system is compaq presario 5000,the original o/s was win me.I updraded it to win2000,it worked very well and when the system was infected with Virus,I reformated the disk and then wanted to install new window when the window instorlaion was compled and restat itself.The system will not stable.

OtheHill April 16, 2013 at 15:56:51

Are you using all the original hardware from when the computer came with ME on it? IDE hard drive for instance. Did you use NTFS or FAT32 for the file system?

I used fat32 not NTFS

OtheHill April 17, 2013 at 05:45:16

mactee, you need to answer all the questions.

Today I decided to try and install win95 on the system,I suceeded with the instalation .Win95 is working good now but I can not upgrade to any other higher OS again can you tell me what is wrong and what to do next.Thanks

OtheHill April 20, 2013 at 15:27:06

The 5000 series was produced for some time. If you can, you need to provide the exact model number, or the service tag off the case.

the model is compaq 5005SR SERIAL #R128JB850009.if I start it on save mode it will start well too.

the original disk was bad and i bought another IDE disk.I installed win 2000 and it worked very goog but after a while it started unstable and thought it was Virus that was when I cleaned the disk then trying to install new window.

OtheHill April 21, 2013 at 08:18:20

"the original disk was bad and i bought another IDE disk.I installed win 2000". Do you mean you replace the hard drive? If so, what hard drive did you install? I need to know the model number or at least the capacity (size) of the new hard drive. If you are trying to perform an upgrade from Win95 to Win2000, I don't think that will work the systems are too different. You need to start fresh. When booting to the Win2000 CD you need to choose the advanced install option. Then delete all partitions and create one partition. Then http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...