04-16-2003, 04:45 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 128
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Win XP 'Upgrade' - stick it (warning: mild rant)
Okay, I just need to get this off my chest once and for all. I bought my Gateway desktop PC 1 1/2 years ago, its a 1.1 GHZ AMD that came with Windows ME. After about 6 months of using ME I upgraded to Win XP Home with the upgrade version of the software. Now for the last 10 months everything has worked flawlessly until about 6 weeks ago. I bought two new Hard drives (80 GB Seagate ATA 100). I used the included software from Seagate to transfer all my files, settings and the OS over to the new drive. Ever since I did this, windows now freezes during boot up and it takes at least 2-3 hard restarts before it finally boots up. I spent countless hours on the phone with Gateway tech support (hey, I paid for it) and they had me reformat, rebuild, recover etc, you name it they had me do it (good thing I had made a ghost copy of my original hard drive before doing any of this). Well after spending the last month and a half with an unstable at best computer I was at my wits end and starting to curse anything and everything PC related.
Solution I wiped out (formated and wiped clean) one of my new 80 GB Hard drives and used the Recovery disks from Gateway to install Windows ME clean on the new hard drive and then I upgraded the new install with Windows XP Home Upgrade and it worked flawlessly. I put it through every stress test I could think of and it performed great just like it did prior to changing hard drives.
I guess the lesson I learned is: when all else fails, go back to the beginning and start over. I did go out and purchase a full copy of Win XP PRO (not upgrade) and installed it as a clean install over the weekend and it has worked perfectly (as perfect as Windows can run) for the last 4 days. 0X
rberry88
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