[windows2000] Re: installing over xp home
- From: "Chris McEvoy" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:13:19 -0000
I bought a system from Dell that had XP Home pre-installed with an evil =
=A35 NIC that didn't work under 2000. I had trouble convincing Dell to =
swap it out (they claimed that as the card could ping itself it was =
working, even though it couldn't see the rest of the network!)
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> From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Thursday 31 October 2002 15:14
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: installing over xp home
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> I'm going to guess that it doesn't have anything to do with=20
> the fact that XP is on the machine, and that it's a hardware=20
> problem. Perhaps try pulling out anything that isn't needed=20
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> drives, and other such unnecessary things that you can add=20
> after the install.
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> Ray at work
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Herchenbach, Jim [mailto:jherchenbach@xxxxxxxxxx]=3D20
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:49 AM
> > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [windows2000] installing over xp home
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> > I'm trying to install win2k pro on an existing xp home os. =20
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> > It hangs on "starting windows 2000 setup". Has anyone done=3D20
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> > so, what were your steps.
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