I’ve had some hardware issues on a machine that’s been running
WindowsXP for sometime (I believe the processor could be going
bad). All data has been backed up. What I would like to do is use
the hard drive on a new machine. I’ve found my WindowsXP disk
does not allow me to upgrade the existing WindowsXP
installation under a CD-start. Attempting to start XP even under
safe mode results in an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD, so I
can’t start an upgrade from within Windows.
Is there anything I can do to keep this installation?