XP Upgrade Gone Wrong

[Thraxen]

OK, I have a PC which was running Windows 2000 that I attempted to upgrade to XP using the "Upgrade" option after inserting the WinXP disk. The install appeared to go smoothly and finished.

Now when the PC boots it will get just past the point of detecting the SATA drive and then the screen pops up that says, "Windows failed to start, sorry, blah, blah...." It gives you the option to use one of the Safe Modes, start normally, or last known good configuration. Each option fails to work.

If I choose Safe Mode it gets to the point where it loads the "mup.sys" file and then it reboots and I wind up back at the "failed to start" screen again. I can boot off the Windows XP CD and go to the recovery console. From here I can log onto the installation, but I'm not sure what is wrong so I'm not sure what to fix. I've run chkdsk and it reported no errors.

Any ideas on what could be causing this?

 

[YahoKa]

No idea on the cause, but it might be best to put your hard drive in another computer and back up your files, then so a full format/reinstall. The time to diagnose and fix that would probably make it not worth it... I guess I'm not much help, am I?

 

[Tarrant64]

I will probably get negative/positive feed back on this.

But I always run "chkdsk" to fix any errors (check disk)
I also do FIXMBR and FIXBOOT to fix anything else that may be wrong.

Now...I'm working with unattended right now and on the Dell Opti-Plex's and mine errors out on Mup.sys as well. Take into account that the driver that loads after that is NDIS.sys(or something like that). So the problem could be there.

Hope this helps. When I get my problem solved, I'll let you know what I did to fix it. Should be later this afternono when I get to work. I am thinking something to do with the partitions.

 

[Thraxen]

Well, I just gave up on it. I attempted to boot off the WinXP CD and have it repair the Windows installation. That didn't work... all that resulted in was instead of seeing the screen to choose which mode (Safe, normal, etc...) there was some sort of BSOD with stop codes. The problem is the screen was only there for a split second before it rebooted and I didn't have time to read any of the codes. So I removed the drive, put it in another PC, backed-up all the files, and am now going through a format/re-install.

It simply wasn't worth the time since the files were easily recoverable and all the apps that were installed are easy to re-install.

 

[bruceb]

You might have forgot to F6 and install the SATA Drivers
Or possibly the SATA Drive was not set to be the Boot Drive
in the BIOS