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Old April 7th, 2003, 04:46 AM
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installing xp
Help!! I've got an Advent 6412 dvd lappy (uk brand) 1 gig clock. It was running win ME, and decided to upgrade to xp. On first installation came up with error -not enough virtual memory- it had only 128Mb on board. Added another 256 MB tried installing again now ,no error message, but gets to 1 minute to go and locks on the "removing any tempory files". Any suggestions greatly appreciated. I have some files tha I want to save as well- suggestions?? Cheers
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Old April 8th, 2003, 12:14 AM
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you should have saved all files before attempting an upgrade from ME to XP....

Or any other type of upgrade....

Can you re-install ME...repair it, don't format or you will lose you data.
Once ME is installed, backup what you want....then proceed to play with XP.
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Are you booting into ME and then running the XP setup?

I had issues when i did that. If you boot from the CD you get a much better install
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I tried using the upgrade option and after a few tries gave up and did a full install, worked well.
However all my data was backed up.
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However all my data was backed up.


Well that goes without saying when you do anything like this.
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