Having recently reformatted a hard drive and installed all programs, brought up Quicken 2001 to reload two floppy backup disks. Both installed satisfactorily and after going to an account registry which reflected the most recent entry, clicking on the date to make a new entry found things locked up, and then I noticed that the hard drive was flashing. Could only stop it be turning off the PC and on reboot Windows XP would not open. Thereafter, I rebooted with a Startup disk and went from a: to c: and found that the root directory appeared to correspond with my recollection of my previous XP root directory. I also found that, using DOS, I could copy my files to a fixed backup drive and then paste them to another removable hard drive with corresponding folders and files. So my files seem to be intact but XP will not come up. QUESTION: Is there anything I can do to activate my XP Home Upgrade?
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Do a repair reinstall -
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I have tried it and nothing happens . . . which is consistent, it seems to me, with the fact that XP Home Upgrade has to be installed from within Windows. The absence of this feature in the Upgrade version is almost justification for buying the full version in the first place.
Do you mean you can't boot from the XP install CD? If that's true, what about generating the 6 boot floppies which is alternative way of starting install process (which you need to to for repair reinstall) -
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