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I am having considerable trouble trying to get XP Professional (with SP1)
onto my laptop. It is a Toshiba Satellite A70 800, which came new, with XP
Home waiting to be set up on the HDD.
I ran through the Home setup, and I now wish to install XP Professional onto
my machine.
Using the setup.exe file directly, I have tried both upgrading and a new
installation, both of which return the same message:
"Before Setup continues, please restart your computer."
So I restart my computer, expecting that something will happen. It doesn't.
I then try to run setup.exe again, and I am back to where I started.
After doing a compatibility test, I find that the DVD-RAM driver doesn't
seem to work with XP Professional - which I find surprising, since it is
supported by XP Home. The drive I have in my machine is the one it came with,
I believe the brand is Matshita.
I have also tried booting from the CD, but I encountered a similar error.
Replies would be appreciated, as this is urgent for my purposes.
onto my laptop. It is a Toshiba Satellite A70 800, which came new, with XP
Home waiting to be set up on the HDD.
I ran through the Home setup, and I now wish to install XP Professional onto
my machine.
Using the setup.exe file directly, I have tried both upgrading and a new
installation, both of which return the same message:
"Before Setup continues, please restart your computer."
So I restart my computer, expecting that something will happen. It doesn't.
I then try to run setup.exe again, and I am back to where I started.
After doing a compatibility test, I find that the DVD-RAM driver doesn't
seem to work with XP Professional - which I find surprising, since it is
supported by XP Home. The drive I have in my machine is the one it came with,
I believe the brand is Matshita.
I have also tried booting from the CD, but I encountered a similar error.
Replies would be appreciated, as this is urgent for my purposes.