I was going to try the ME next, but I'm so glad that I found out that the USB
keyboard wouldn't load until after the OS loaded.

Fortunately, reinstalling everything is running fairly smoothly....

"N. Miller" wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:06:37 -0500, Jim wrote:

Upgrade from what to what?

The best explanation I have is that the CD is not bootable. The computer
would then boot from the hard drive.

When I tried to upgrade Windows Me to Windows XP, the upgrade CD booted. The
problem I encountered is that the upgrade disk would not recognize an OEM
recovery CD as a valid upgrade path. I had to run the HP Recovery disks to
reinstall Windows Me (for some reason, after upgrading the system BIOS,
Windows Me would hang at the "Finding new hardware" pop-up window), and run
the upgrade CD from within a working installation of Windows Me. I am sure
that a retail box install disk for Windows Me would be recognized.

Given the amount of time Grace took to make things work, I just wonder,
considering that she wanted to run a clean install, if just reloading
Windows Me, and running the upgrade from within Windows Me wouldn't have
been faster.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum