Upgrgrading windows 98 Second Editon to XP

[Joe]

I have an HP Pavilion desktop that came with Windows 98 Second Edition. I
had upgraded to XP about two years ago. About one month ago my system kept
restarting by itself. I installed my system recovery disks to reformat my
hard drive. After re formating my hard drive, my copy of XP will not
download. I keep on getting error messages that the program has performed and
illegal operation and will be shut down, or missing dll. Any suggestions?
--
Joe S.

 

[PA Bear]

Windows XP will not /install/? Did you run any hardware diagnostics before
you formatted the HDD?
--
WinXP-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowxp.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

Joe wrote:
> I have an HP Pavilion desktop that came with Windows 98 Second Edition. I
> had upgraded to XP about two years ago. About one month ago my system
> kept
> restarting by itself. I installed my system recovery disks to reformat my
> hard drive. After re formating my hard drive, my copy of XP will not
> download. I keep on getting error messages that the program has performed
> and illegal operation and will be shut down, or missing dll. Any
> suggestions?

 

[Joe]

How do I run diagnostics? I am not too computer savy! Thanks for your
response.
--
Joe S.


"PA Bear" wrote:

> Windows XP will not /install/? Did you run any hardware diagnostics before
> you formatted the HDD?
> --
> WinXP-specific newsgroup:
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowxp.general
>
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
>
> Joe wrote:
> > I have an HP Pavilion desktop that came with Windows 98 Second Edition. I
> > had upgraded to XP about two years ago. About one month ago my system
> > kept
> > restarting by itself. I installed my system recovery disks to reformat my
> > hard drive. After re formating my hard drive, my copy of XP will not
> > download. I keep on getting error messages that the program has performed
> > and illegal operation and will be shut down, or missing dll. Any
> > suggestions?
>
>