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Thank you for your response. Before I received it last night, I read on
Microsoft's site that if it the install program stopped responding, to try to
wait 10-15 mins to see if it would start up again. I tried this---within the
regular set-up of my comp, via 98SE....not via a boot from the CD-----and it
did indeed start responding again after about just 5-7 mins of stopping
responding. Since the program wasn't reaching the Microsoft update site (as
you discovered, too), I had disconnected my cable internet. After the Dynamic
Update couldn't reach the website, I clicked the 'go on ahead and install'
section, too. (I had done that before, too.....but, after it stopped
responding, of course, I exited the program, rather than trying to wait 10-20
mins, as Microsoft site suggested.) However, when the install tonight got to
analyzing the computer, (it started out telling me that it would take 83 mins
approx for the install------or thereabouts), it stopped telling me that at
about 78 mins., though the program wasn't hanging up, at least not to the
point that it said that when I did Cntrl, Alt, Del to check. The small
multicolored squares at the bottom right of the program's screen, too, never
stopped moving across and across--showing the program was still responding.
The Intro to XP never stopped running over----the screens that tell you all
about what's going to be available both on and with XP. After about an hour,
though, being "stuck" at 78 mins and about 2/3 of the way thru analyzing the
comp, though it still showed the program as 'responding', I then gave up, by
Cntl, Alt, Del and ending the Update process. It asked if I wanted to do that,
I said yes, and then it told me it would spend time 'un-doing' what it'd done
already, it did, and then the program closed as asked. I restarted the comp,
then tried the entire thing again------this time hooking it up to the
internet again, though it can't reach that site anyway. I went thru just what
you mentioned, saying no to the Dynamic Update after the first try, and it
went on again as I just described-----hitting the same hang-up for about 5-6
mins, then responding again. Once again, it stopped at about 2/3 of the
analyzing of the comp, at about 78 mins left in the installation--it said,
and even though I left it on and watched it for about another hour, whilst
the program never stopped responding-----Intro screens still moved, the
bottom-right squares still moved across and across, and Cntl, Alt, Del never
indicated the program wasn't responding.......I then went to bed,leaving it
on all night, occasionally looking at it when I awoke a few times--to find it
doing the same ol' responding (supposedly), and as of this morning when I got
up, it still hadn't moved any further on its graph of analyzing the comp, nor
of the 78 mins time left.
I did read at Microsoft that I could put the FAT32 into that NTSB, but, of
course, that was suggested to be done after I found the XP program to be
working with the comp for a few days AFTER the installation of it, because
one can't change that back. I was hoping that perhaps that might help the
comp not run in the sluggish manner that both you and Jim suggest it to
probably doing once it's installed.
I just can't seem to get it installed. LOL~ I guess I'll try to get ahold
of Microsoft and see what they say about the installation of it right now. I
still don't understand why my comp specs seem to be enough for what is
suggested to have a min. of for XP, and why you and Jim don't seem to think
that will be good enough......though, don't get me wrong, ....I trust that....
.I just don't get it. ha~ I did find at Microsoft last night that I wouldn't
have enough on my comp, at this point, to do Vista.
BTW, would adding an external hard drive add enough comp specs to do Vista? I
know you both suggest a new comp, but those are considerably more in cost as
to what I could afford to do right now. ;-0
Thanks for your help here....
. It said to highlight where I wanted the XP Upgrade to install, I