From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Yup. I was in the middle of the upgrade when I saw your note.

It "stalled" 3 times, once saying it couldn't find an entry point
in a de-registering dll, and 2 times when trying to install devices.  Had
to power off, and let the computer reboot, and the setup restart, but on
the 4th time it ran do completion, and everything _appears_ to be there,
and fully functional.  Now doing all the patches/updates.  I have a local
copy of most all the XP patches, so I applied them from our server, rather
than downloading them all again.

All does appear to be working fine.  The start of the install (system
check) only said that the installed Lexmark Optra drives might not work, so
I deleted the network printers before I started, and will re-install after
all the patches.

This is on a Gateway laptop.  Heck, it even carried our VPN software
forward with the upgrade, so, at least at this point I'm happy with the
results.  I know that's all subject to change though....  But,
I'm the eternal optimist (yea, I know, Murphy was an optimist too).

--
Glenn M.


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:40f2cf85{at}w3.nls.net...
> Based on 2 out of three overlay upgrades I've seen (2 Dell, 1 Toshiba),
you'd
> do better collecting a set of current drivers and formatting.  Then the
only
> gotcha is that some updates look for the OEM versions of XP.  I've heard
of
> BIOS flashers from CD/HD refusing to run; haven't seen that one in person.
>
> The 2 out of three got reformatted.
>
> I'm assuming you're not wedded to any OEM-supplied software.  For
instance,
> most software DVD players won't install/upgrade to a retail XP.  And
Dell's MS
> Office bundles are not standard software - they're not upgradeable, and
won't
> reinstall on retail.
>
> That enough?
>

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