Windows XP pro problems

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vonbismarck

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Hello all. Hopefully someone will be able to help me. Late last night/early this morning I tried to upgrade my computer from windows 2000 to xp pro. I found an upgrade disk, popped it in and checked to see if there were any compatibility problems. It said that one piece of software might not work but that was it. With that I went and installed it. The installation went fine but, once all done, it will not boot into windows. At the point where the xp logo would appear, the screen goes black and then the computer resets. If I I try safe mode, it goes until to gets to loading AGP440.sys (I think that is what it says) before freezing for a few seconds and then rebooting. Is there any way I can fix this?

Also, to make things potentially slightly more difficult, I accidentally, while barely awake, did a regular install of xp. It didn't overwrite my old install as I can see all my files that I had even if I can't access them (because the software isn't installed on this install) and, when the computer boots, it asks if I want to boot to Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Professional (the second one is the one that constantly reboots itself).

Hopefully someone can help and thank you all ahead of time for trying.
 
Go to Control Panel>System Properties>Advanced tab>Startup and Recovery settings> and uncheck "Time to display a list of operating systems" and click ok.
 
vonbismarck said:
Hello all. Hopefully someone will be able to help me. Late last night/early this morning I tried to upgrade my computer from windows 2000 to xp pro. I found an upgrade disk, popped it in and checked to see if there were any compatibility problems. It said that one piece of software might not work but that was it. With that I went and installed it. The installation went fine but, once all done, it will not boot into windows. At the point where the xp logo would appear, the screen goes black and then the computer resets. If I I try safe mode, it goes until to gets to loading AGP440.sys (I think that is what it says) before freezing for a few seconds and then rebooting. Is there any way I can fix this?

Also, to make things potentially slightly more difficult, I accidentally, while barely awake, did a regular install of xp. It didn't overwrite my old install as I can see all my files that I had even if I can't access them (because the software isn't installed on this install) and, when the computer boots, it asks if I want to boot to Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Professional (the second one is the one that constantly reboots itself).

Hopefully someone can help and thank you all ahead of time for trying.
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At this point the best thing to do is boot to your Pro cd. Delete the partition/s. Create a new one format and do a fresh install.


lucasbytegenius said:
Go to Control Panel>System Properties>Advanced tab>Startup and Recovery settings> and uncheck "Time to display a list of operating systems" and click ok.
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All that will do is hide the second OS on boot. Its still there.
 
StrangleHold said:
At this point the best thing to do is boot to your Pro cd. Delete the partition/s. Create a new one format and do a fresh install.
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This is probably a stupid question but, if I do that, I lose all the data I had correct? I am guessing that it is already essentially lost anyway. I was just hoping there would be a way to save it. I am just going to back everything up to an external hard drive (luckily the internal hard drive is small) and then sift through it later.
 
AGP440.sys is part of the chipset driver. 2000 driver was probably incompatible with XP. But yes you could copy the files over off the 2000 to XP upgrade part to a external.
 
vonbismarck said:
This is probably a stupid question but, if I do that, I lose all the data I had correct? I am guessing that it is already essentially lost anyway. I was just hoping there would be a way to save it. I am just going to back everything up to an external hard drive (luckily the internal hard drive is small) and then sift through it later.
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Yes, you would loose it all, but, you can just back it up.

I second the vote for a fresh install, overwriting and formating all partitions, after getting important info off.
 
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