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Greetings,

I would suggest you do an FDISK on your drive, and start with a clean reformatted drive on which Windows XP will install.

Good luck,

Maxwell

you are probably using a non standard device for which the driver is not available ..try installing the correct driver when it finds the plug and play device at statup ....Else the above option is the only option ..

Much luck

The best way would be to reformat your hard drive using the FDISK utility (you can use a W98 boot disk). Then do a clean install of W2K or Windows XP. During install the OS will reformat your HD again ensuring that you have a clean HD and fresh install.

Hope that helps.

The reason that u did not reformat your hard disk might be because you need to reinstall most of your software and backing up your data. However, still the best way to solve this problem is to rename your windows folders to say maybe (oldwin) and when installin your windows XP, installed it in a new folder. When the installation is completed, windows XP will scan for your P&P devices.(remember you must do a new installation instead of an upgrade because when using upgrading, windows XP will usethe existing OS dll and drivers instead of creating a new one. When your Xp is up, you can then transfer your exiting data and programs to XP and after that delete the old folder. In this way, you do not need to reformat your harddisk.

Cheers...

Francis Seah

The reason that u did not reformat your hard disk might be because you need to reinstall most of your software and backing up your data. However, still the best way to solve this problem is to rename your windows folders to say maybe (oldwin) and when installin your windows XP, installed it in a new folder. When the installation is completed, windows XP will scan for your P&P devices.(remember you must do a new installation instead of an upgrade because when using upgrading, windows XP will usethe existing OS dll and drivers instead of creating a new one. When your Xp is up, you can then transfer your exiting data and programs to XP and after that delete the old folder. In this way, you do not need to reformat your harddisk.

Cheers...

Francis Seah

Reason :
it shows clearly that some of your hardware is not supported by XP.Take note that there is a need for you to uninstall your anti virus software as there are prone to give errors especially when upgading your OS.

What you can do is remove your additional hardwares like sound cards,modems and run your XP on top of your win 95.After the installatio has complete, then add the extras one by one.XP is smart enough to determine which hardwares are not compatible and not giving you a blue screen.

At the present moment you need to remove the hardware and your os won't freeze.Good luck.

Nad

To keep it from rebooting while trouble-shooting it, boot into safe mode, right-click on "My Computer", go to "Advanced" and click on the "Startup and Recovery" button. Under "System Failure", uncheck "Automatically reboot".

This will allow Windows to start and when whatever was causing the problem happens, it will give an error instead of rebooting. You can then trouble-shoot that error.

Wondering, why posting an answer which says the same as a previous one???
May I copy and paste an answer given by somebody else, in the hope to collect the points instead of the original replyer?
NO, I MAY NOT.
BTW, good to see you are back, maxwell !!!

DO NOT USE FDISK! FDISK is an option that should be used as a last resort. If you want to install Windows XP over Windows 95, use the Win95 boot disk to boot the system. Don't boot from the hard drive. When the diskette finishes loading the system, enter the following line at the "a" prompt:

A:\format c:\u

What this will do is perform an unconditional format of your hard drive, wiping it clean. after format is complete, try to install Win XP again.

FDISK is not a format utility. It is used to prepare the drive for writing. Many people make the mistake of using FDISK to format, yes it does wipe the disk, but if you dont know what you're doing, you can really mess things up.

You can try before anythingelse to get out every card of your PC. You need only the video card to try it.
First enter safe mode and if all ok, try it the normal way.
If ok, install one more card and probe the system. Make this until you put back all the card.
If no way at all, like Maxwell says... fdisk and format the disk.
Good luck!!

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