Re: Attempt to upgrade Pavillion a1250n OS to XP Pro
- From: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:58:36 GMT
The only clue I can offer is that neither XP Home nor XP Pro provide drivers on
the install CD for SATA drives. To install either on a system with a SATA
drive, you need to have a driver disk to insert when the XP install asks very
early on whether there are drivers to be added. You need to look at the same
potential problem with a Gateway box, too... Ben Myers
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:15:16 -0500, "Brad Kuhl" <BKuhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I got fed up that I could not install either XP Pro or Linux on it
>successfully so I finally returned it for credit. I could have spent more
>time troubleshooting Linux, but I had no more patience....
>
>One thing I thought of on the way to the store though was that maybe the
>media reader is causing a problem. I noticed that they showed up when
>picking the install partition. Could they be changing the drive order on
>reboot causing it to loose the XP partition? If you feel lucky, try
>installing with the media reader disconnected and see if it goes any better.
>
>I'm curious if you find a way to install Pro. I basically could not use the
>machine without XP Pro because of my home network, so I decided to move
>on....
>
>-BKuhl
>
>
>"kgo" <kgoden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1134935374.953778.128550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Thanks for all the replies.
>>
>> In regards to the video card, I was just trying that thinking that it
>> might get me around a driver issue with the on-board (or integrated)
>> video chip set. I found an article saying that this is a new chipset
>> that was created with the Athlon 64 x2 in mind and I thought that maybe
>> the problem was that the win xp pro setup program just couldn't
>> communicate with this new chipset. Of course, that doesn't seem to
>> address the fact that everything appeared to be working fine for the
>> boot from CD. It was only when the setup program has enough stuff over
>> on the hard drive that it wants to boot from there to continue the
>> setup process that the problems occurred. I just know that I've
>> installed Win XP Pro on a system with that pci card in it so I know
>> that if it were a driver problem, this card should work. I did go into
>> the setup menu and tell it to use the PCI slot but that didn't make any
>> difference.
>>
>> As far as getting past the issue. No, I haven't made much progress. I
>> have some Christmas DVDs of my children that I need to make so I was
>> going to reinstall Media Edition just to get that done so I really
>> haven't looked into the problem much more--but I will because I really
>> need XP pro in the end.
>>
>> On another (sad) note. The system wasn't shipped with a set of
>> reinstall media. It had a recovery partition and apparently had some
>> software that allowed you to make your own recovery disks. Sadly, I
>> didn't see this in the little bit of documentation I looked at. I
>> should have made the disks but I knew that I wasn't planning to use XP
>> ME and I've done many XP Pro installs so I happly blew away all the
>> partitions on the hard drive and began the reinstall. When everything
>> went south, I called HP and got the bad news and had to listen to "you
>> should have..." sermons before I could pay $23.00 for them to send me
>> the reinstall media. I got the media yesterday. There were two DVDs.
>> It took 2+ hours to go through the two disks. I was then prompted for
>> a "Supplemental Recovery" disk--which I didn't have, didn't know what
>> it was. The little pamphlet that I got with the disks said that I
>> might be prompted for the Supplemental disk(though it didn't say what
>> it was). I used the online chat to ask an HP tech about it. After
>> lots of questions that convinced me that I was not going to get an
>> answer, his advice was to re-run the two disks I had. I said I wasn't
>> going to do that because there didn't seem to be anything wrong with
>> the disks I had but that I seemed to be missing a disk that the missing
>> disk was referred to in the instructions and now 45mins into this
>> discussion you still haven't told me what this disk is. After about 5
>> more minutes he asked for my address and s/n and p/n of the system.
>> They are going to ship me a new set of CDs. I'm not convinced that
>> this set will work either but I'm hoping that someone just forgot to
>> put the missing disk into the shipping box. We'll see.
>>
>> So, if anyone runs into this problem and finds a way around it please
>> post it here. I will do the same and thanks.
>>
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