Topic: help w/ xp pro???

[F.O.Bean]

ive never upgraded OS or anything, and for some reason, i cannot gewt my serial ##'s to work right......any help would be great!!!

is it always this hard to "upgrade"

thanks guyz,
  bean

[dmonterisi]

bean- is this a "demo" version of xp?

[F.O.Bean]

bean- is this a "demo" version of xp?

unfortunately :Pit loads righgt up, i just cannot get to the "regular" version for the life of me......

thanks for any help damon

FWIW, i tried about 10 "serials" and none wroked, does it usually take a bunch of tries???

[RRobar]

bean- is this a "demo" version of xp?

unfortunately :Pit loads righgt up, i just cannot get to the "regular" version for the life of me......

thanks for any help damon

Bean, you need the corporate version with no activation I suspect. To keep it clean here PM and I may be able to lead you in the direction.


FWIW, i tried about 10 "serials" and none wroked, does it usually take a bunch of tries???

[F.O.Bean]

gotcha, i think i9 know what to do, ill delete these posts as soon as i get it figured out, thanks rob!!!

[Phil]

Bean, here is a great little program for fixing pesky serial problems with Microsoft.  http://www.magicaljellybean.com/

[Diggin]

I used that at my job this summer since we had corp. keys and I forgot the key when making a new image, it is a very nice product

[F.O.Bean]

guyz, whats different on the corporate version???

i installed the corporate and everything installed fine, but when i went to get online, its like my dial-up connection died and was gone....... ???i couldnt connect for the life of me, it wouldnt ever bring up my connection box!!!

did the corporate version make it where you have to be on a "network" or high speed access? ???thats the conclusion i came to!!!!

then i had to do a system restore from the factory, i now have xp home and all my factory setting(except the ones used for recording, ie: hibernation, screen saver, etc...), but now i cannot get norton systemworks to work, it says that there already another anti-virus on there......i erased the mcAfee it came w/ and also any remnants of systemworks, i dunno why it wont werk, it wouldnt pop up when i did the system restore!!!

i think thats my longest post ever!!!

thanks for any help in advance!!!and thanks thus far

[thoman8r]

guyz, whats different on the corporate version???

Nothing, just the install process is slightly different.  The "corporate" version doesn't require activation.  And the MSDN version doesn't require a key at all.

i installed the corporate and everything installed fine, but when i went to get online, its like my dial-up connection died and was gone....... ???i couldnt connect for the life of me, it wouldnt ever bring up my connection box!!!

did the corporate version make it where you have to be on a "network" or high speed access? ???thats the conclusion i came to!!!!

That doesn't have anything to do with it being the corporate version.  Functionally, it is exactly the same as any other version of XP Pro.  It should handle dial up fine.  Sounds like there's something else going on.

then i had to do a system restore from the factory, i now have xp home and all my factory setting(except the ones used for recording, ie: hibernation, screen saver, etc...), but now i cannot get norton systemworks to work, it says that there already another anti-virus on there......i erased the mcAfee it came w/ and also any remnants of systemworks, i dunno why it wont werk, it wouldnt pop up when i did the system restore!!!

Did you delete it or *uninstall* it.  There's a big difference.  You can't just delete the files themselves.  Doing that leaves the registry entries and tricks the OS into thinking the program is still there.  You have to run the uninstall utility from add/remove programs under the Control Panel.

[F.O.Bean]

guyz, whats different on the corporate version???

Nothing, just the install process is slightly different.  The "corporate" version doesn't require activation.  And the MSDN version doesn't require a key at all.

i installed the corporate and everything installed fine, but when i went to get online, its like my dial-up connection died and was gone....... ???i couldnt connect for the life of me, it wouldnt ever bring up my connection box!!!

did the corporate version make it where you have to be on a "network" or high speed access? ???thats the conclusion i came to!!!!

That doesn't have anything to do with it being the corporate version.  Functionally, it is exactly the same as any other version of XP Pro.  It should handle dial up fine.  Sounds like there's something else going on.

then i had to do a system restore from the factory, i now have xp home and all my factory setting(except the ones used for recording, ie: hibernation, screen saver, etc...), but now i cannot get norton systemworks to work, it says that there already another anti-virus on there......i erased the mcAfee it came w/ and also any remnants of systemworks, i dunno why it wont werk, it wouldnt pop up when i did the system restore!!!

Did you delete it or *uninstall* it.  There's a big difference.  You can't just delete the files themselves.  Doing that leaves the registry entries and tricks the OS into thinking the program is still there.  You have to run the uninstall utility from add/remove programs under the Control Panel.

thanks bro, ill try that out, +T

[RRobar]

Bean did you reformat the HD when installing XP Pro? I've never had good luck upgrading. If you clean it off and start new I don't think you'll have these issues.

[F.O.Bean]

Bean did you reformat the HD when installing XP Pro? I've never had good luck upgrading. If you clean it off and start new I don't think you'll have these issues.

yeah, i just upgraded, i guess ill start fresh!!!

thanks rob!!!

how long does a reformat take???

and how do i do it!!!

[RRobar]

When your PC boots. Hit delete or f10 to enter setup. You'll be looking to enter the bios screen. There are different setups but mine is the 2nd one on the list. You want to set the primary boot device to goto the cdrom drive. Then save the changes and exit, The PC will start from the disc. Through that setup there should be an option to install on a partion or delete the partition. Delete the partition and then select to reformat the partition. It so get it all should be easy enough to follow. You will probably have to get some drivers once to download some new drivers for any devices you may have. I had probalems with my nvidia video card after upgrading to win xp pro. but have that figured now.

I'm sure others will chome in here as well, but that's how I did it not to long ago.

[RRobar]

oh yeah about 45 min for the whole thing. but that may be dependant on the processor you are running.

[F.O.Bean]

thanks rob, so \once i got to "format", should i check make ms-dos boot disk!!!

how does one get a boot disk???