windows xp upgrade gone bad

dalert0140 · 05-31-2003, 06:48 PM

hello everyone,

i'm having a little problem here.

I decided to upgrade from windows xp home edition to the pro version.

One of my friends got a disk that one of his friends copied for him.

He gave me a copy,it's a non bootable version.

So anyways what i did was put the cd in my dvd drive and started the upgrade verythign seemed to be going fine.But while it was doing the upgrade it asked me to ocate a file _ivaag i believe)this seemed to be some sort of driver formy hard drive...stupid me i chose ignore after looking for the driver

.everything seemed to be going smooth even after i chose to ignore.

But then after the upgrade was dome and the new windows x p pro booted for the first time,i found the resolutio of my monitor at the lowest i right clicked on the desktop-->properties and chose 1024*786 then everything went black event hougn that was my last resolution...i tried to boot into safe mode...nothing..then tried all the restof the boot options:safe mode again,avg,debugging,but right after i tried start from my last knpb good configuration it gave me a blue screenof death and said some thing about windows shutting down to avoid hardware damage...and mentioned and unmontabl disk...then it gave me options like boot into safe mode unistall,et and a strange error code.

Well that's pretty much what happened.I'll try to provide the exact message but right now I'm writing this S.O.S from one of the public linbraries computers.

I downloade the windows xp pro sp1 floppy diusks that let you start your cd rom. disk that let you sthart you boot from your cd rom(btw i have my dvd rom as one of the boot devices boot the disk that i'm using to upgrade is non-bootable)

I hope someone can help.I'll try to write back as sonn as I can

THanx in advance.

ac19189 · 07-22-2006, 02:24 PM

This is an easy fix. Format the computer reinstall windows home and dont use a boot leg copy of windows upgrade. See simple

Good luck with that.

cold_name · 12-12-2006, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ac19189

This is an easy fix. Format the computer reinstall windows home and dont use a boot leg copy of windows upgrade. See simple

Good luck with that.

easy and fast

05-31-2003, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
dalert0140 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 185	windows xp upgrade gone bad hello everyone, i'm having a little problem here. I decided to upgrade from windows xp home edition to the pro version. One of my friends got a disk that one of his friends copied for him. He gave me a copy,it's a non bootable version. So anyways what i did was put the cd in my dvd drive and started the upgrade verythign seemed to be going fine.But while it was doing the upgrade it asked me to ocate a file _ivaag i believe)this seemed to be some sort of driver formy hard drive...stupid me i chose ignore after looking for the driver .everything seemed to be going smooth even after i chose to ignore. But then after the upgrade was dome and the new windows x p pro booted for the first time,i found the resolutio of my monitor at the lowest i right clicked on the desktop-->properties and chose 1024*786 then everything went black event hougn that was my last resolution...i tried to boot into safe mode...nothing..then tried all the restof the boot options:safe mode again,avg,debugging,but right after i tried start from my last knpb good configuration it gave me a blue screenof death and said some thing about windows shutting down to avoid hardware damage...and mentioned and unmontabl disk...then it gave me options like boot into safe mode unistall,et and a strange error code. Well that's pretty much what happened.I'll try to provide the exact message but right now I'm writing this S.O.S from one of the public linbraries computers. I downloade the windows xp pro sp1 floppy diusks that let you start your cd rom. disk that let you sthart you boot from your cd rom(btw i have my dvd rom as one of the boot devices boot the disk that i'm using to upgrade is non-bootable) I hope someone can help.I'll try to write back as sonn as I can THanx in advance.

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07-22-2006, 02:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
ac19189 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 66	This is an easy fix. Format the computer reinstall windows home and dont use a boot leg copy of windows upgrade. See simple Good luck with that.