when I try upgrade my notebook to xp it will start installing after in the "analyzing Computer" stage it will and stops and my computer reboots and go bak to my old OS (win98SE)..what seems to be the problem?

Don't upgrade, format your HDD with NTFS and perform a clean installation (after saving your data, of course)

Edited August 6, 200521 yr by FAT64

yes definately, its always best to do a fresh install everytime, unless your cd is just an upgrade cd?

Are you sure your laptop's specs are high enough to run Windows XP?

i am sure that your specs not apply for xp.

so it can be the reuirements of ure laptop, try to see if it meets the xp requrirements and also in the hardwre side, i think xp is having conflits with ure notebook integrated hardwares. well just check these but i dont know myslf. thanks.

Don't upgrade, format your HDD with NTFS and perform a clean installation (after saving your data, of course) 

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how to do this?

i really tried it. it was installing but after rebooting by cd rom is not recognize. do somebody know what are the other ways of installing windows xp? i have one floppy which is bootdisk of xp..it has there mscdex file which i'm using before I installed windows 98...i need this...i'm frustrated..

XP needs 4-5 floppy boot disks, however you can use a 98 boot disk. Boot with CD-ROM support, format your hard drive.

Note: make sure your boot disk has a program called "smartdrv.exe" and run that before you install XP, otherwise you will be too old to use your computer when it finally finishes copying files from the CD!!

Run d:\i386\winnt.exe

(assuming d is your CD-ROM drive letter)

That should install XP. Convert the hard drive to NTFS!

Edited August 6, 200521 yr by FAT64

can u please post your laptop's specs?

Toshiba Libretto 100CT Notebook, Pentium MMX 233 32mb RAM, external CD-ROM and Floppy disk. PCMCIA Cards (Both floppy, cd-rom, usb). I have installed xp on my desktop pc with the same specs but of course cd rom is attached directly.

u better try windows 2k nlited for that laptop.....

i had the same problem when i try to install 2000 b4. i encountered the same problem.

that means your cdrom is broken.

no it is not broke. I think this is the problem. I'm using a pcmcia card, i'm not directly connected to my laptop. I think when the installation reboot, he cannot recognize my cd rom anymore. same thing happened to me when i installed windows 98se before. i reformatted my disk and my cd-rom is not receognize so i have to get the mscdex.exe file before i can use my computer. but installing xp is different from 98 'coz xp cannot be run setup.exe in dos mode. what shall i do?