Upgraded to XP and having loads of problems

[cwatson]

Hi there,

My home PC was running windows 2000 and it’s on a 64 chip

I got a XP CD from work licensed for employees to put on there home pc's so I thought I might as well upgrade, so I did the upgrade etc and all seemed well.

Then I lost site of both my CD drives, also I get an error saying Windows explorer has experienced an error and needs to close down and also the same for DrWatson making me loose my task bar and all my desktop icons so i have to restart.

Im not sure what steps I need to take now to sort this, im guessing the CD drives just need the drivers reinstalling as they can be seen in the bios.

Can anyone point me in the right direction or spread any light on this.

Thanks

Carl

[eyeball]

can you update your xp at all? or is it totally unusable?

[IcemanND]

Best bet, backup you data and reload XP on a clean, freshly formatted drive. I have never seen and upgrade of and M$ os go without problems.

[cwatson]

I think im going to back up and start from scratch, so will get back to you on that one and see hos it goes.