Re: Help Upgrading from ME to XP
- From: "Doug Holtz" <dholtzNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:52:31 GMT
"Jeff" <jefffby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am hoping someone can help me out. I have an HP Pavillion n5295 laptop.
> It came loaded with Windows Me. I bought a Western Digital 80gig hard
> drive. I put the new hard drive in and booted from the WindowsXp cd, it
> goes the all the initall loading of drivers ect. but when it gets to the
> point of starting the windows install and formatting and such a blue
> screen
> comes up saying system had to shut down due to a partmgr.sys error no
> page
> fault error. I can not seem to get around this. Has anyone else run into
> this or successfully upgraded this system to windows XP? At one point
> during an attempted install (I rebooted and tried several times) a message
> popped up saying something about not having loaded a mass storage device
> and
> to insert a disk with the driver. In the bios it recognizes having a 71
> gig
> drive(not 80 for some reason). Not sure what driver it might be looking
> for
> or why it says no mass store device? I have searced the web for this
> error
> and i have seen many references to this issue but none that give a
> resolution. On western digitals website it lists this error and says that
> i
> need to press f6 when windowsxp first starts the install process and load
> the drivers for the hard drive. I have looked on HP's website and can not
> find where I can download the hard drive controller and even looked on the
> recovery cd that came with the notebook but do not find any hard drive
> controllers on it. So I guess I am kind of stuck at the moment and
> wondering if anyone on here might have a resolution to this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
Jeff;
I think the Western Digital web site is referring to installing the
"overlay" on the drive, not necessarily a driver. The overlay gets rid of
the size limit an older PC would have in it's BIOS. Maybe your laptop has
this problem: it can't see the entire drive. Can you go into the BIOS and
see if it sees the entire drive? If so, then you don't need the WD overlay
program.
I'd put the old drive with ME back in, boot up to ME, then put in the XP cd
and have the XP cd check your machine for compatibility with XP. If it is
not compatible, you will be given a report on what drivers/ hardware changes
you would need to make.
Doug
.
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