XP Upgrade Freezes

[jaymax2U]

Hello,

Does anyone have a solution to machine hanging and freezing during an upgrade of 2KProf to XP. Occurred during the installation step - now I can neither continue the upgrade or stepback to the Win 2KProf.

Thanks

XP Upgrade Freezes

 

[goombawaho]

I don't think you can go back now - you're sort of past the point of no return.

Best bet would be to hook your hard drive up to another computer as a slave and back up any data that is still on there. Then do a clean install of XP overwriting everything that exists (even deleting existing partitions to start fresh). Get your data off first or it's bye bye.

If no data, then no worries.

 

[jaymax2U]

Yes, I agree with you but was wondering

Now, something had slipped me - I have been doing this upgrade on a RAID Drive. Should I have broken the RAID before attempting the upgrade?

 

[goombawaho]

If it's a hardware RAID setup then NO, I wouldn't break the RAID (unless you wanted to totally destroy all the data and start fresh).

Assuming it's RAID 1, you could break the mirror, install XP and then remirror, but I don't see any reason to.

If your doing mirroring withing Windows, it will be broken by the installation.