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Windows XP Pro with SP2
I just bought a new laptop which came with XP Home Edition. I bought a retail
copy of XP Pro with SP2. After the full installation of XP, some installations does not run. For example, I click on setup.exe and answer the necessary questions. Then the setup stay there forever. I open Task Manager, and it say "Running" The hard drive does not lights up. Has anybody seens this problem? |
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Sounds like you did not upgrade and installed XP Pro in the same partition as
XP Home. I would suggest starting over and perform the installation correctly. Clean Install Windows XP http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "ItzMeMarcio" wrote: | I just bought a new laptop which came with XP Home Edition. I bought a retail | copy of XP Pro with SP2. After the full installation of XP, some | installations does not run. For example, I click on setup.exe and answer the | necessary questions. Then the setup stay there forever. I open Task | Manager, and it say "Running" The hard drive does not lights up. Has | anybody seens this problem? |
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Carey,
I did a full install. I deleted the partition, and recreated when I installed XP. "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote: Sounds like you did not upgrade and installed XP Pro in the same partition as XP Home. I would suggest starting over and perform the installation correctly. Clean Install Windows XP http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "ItzMeMarcio" wrote: | I just bought a new laptop which came with XP Home Edition. I bought a retail | copy of XP Pro with SP2. After the full installation of XP, some | installations does not run. For example, I click on setup.exe and answer the | necessary questions. Then the setup stay there forever. I open Task | Manager, and it say "Running" The hard drive does not lights up. Has | anybody seens this problem? |
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ItzMeMarcio wrote: Carey, I did a full install. I deleted the partition, and recreated when I installed XP. When running setup, are they for the specific software installs? What are they? Are the applications being installed the retail versions or are they "demos" through the laptop's OEM? In some cases of the latter, the installation might have been modified to setup with just the OEM's laptop, including the OEM's version of Windows XP as well as any utilities the laptop also might need or use. A clean install of Windows XP Pro, in this instance, would lack the OEM's modifications and result in the "hang". |
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One of the applications that I am trying to install is PGP. I purchased this
application, and it runs on my office PC. "Ghostrider" wrote: ItzMeMarcio wrote: Carey, I did a full install. I deleted the partition, and recreated when I installed XP. When running setup, are they for the specific software installs? What are they? Are the applications being installed the retail versions or are they "demos" through the laptop's OEM? In some cases of the latter, the installation might have been modified to setup with just the OEM's laptop, including the OEM's version of Windows XP as well as any utilities the laptop also might need or use. A clean install of Windows XP Pro, in this instance, would lack the OEM's modifications and result in the "hang". |
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