Bottomfeeder

I have a laptop PII 256mb of ram
NT4 sp6a & IE6
I also have a legit XP Proffesional upgrade CD

According to the documentation this should work fine.........it doesn't.


Any suggestions or experiences ?

boxst

Hello

In what way doesn't it work?

Steve.

Bottomfeeder

Well the cd autoruns
I click the "Install Windows XP" button
I then get a message reading " Setup cannot upgrade your current installation to Windows XP. Your current installation of Windows is not a supported upgrade path"

I have also run the Compatibility wizard but that just seems to crash, I do not get a report or anything.

Getting rather frustrated GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Bottomfeeder

Does a log get written anywhere when this happens?

boxst

Hello

Are you sure you don't have NT Server? You are only allowed to upgrade from the Workstation version I believe..

Steve.

Bottomfeeder

AH.....great
so the documentation just reads Windows NT4

This laptop is running server.............

that'll probably be my problem then............

Thanks Steve

Silly question time, can you 'convert' NT4 Server to Workstation?

BlkKnight

afraid not.

It's a blat & start again job

Bottomfeeder

You're only round the corner from me.....got a copy of workstation or 2k I can borrow