Posted 09/15/08 at 06:35:51 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

I’m trying to upgrade my boot disc drive, which uses XP as the OS. I’d failed twice and hen turned to Norton Ghost 12 to copy my C drive to my new disc. During the clone, everything seemed to be working until about 70 percent of the way through the procedure. At that point, a message appeared stating that my computer was trying to communicate with Microsoft. After about two minutes another message appeared stating that the attempt to communicate failed. Then the computer crashed.

I had some difficulty rebooting and then found that XP failed to recognize the new disc drive. It took me some time to figure out that this drive had to be reformatted. I’ve upgraded discs before but never encountered difficulties like this. I called Microsoft and they suggested I buy a copy of Vista and rebuild from scratch. I don’t want to do this. Am I missing something?

Begun, the Clone Wars have. Answers after the jump.

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Posted 05/21/08 at 11:02:23 AM by Mark Soper

HP (and maybe other vendors) goofed, laptop users with AMD processors and Windows XP SP2 suffered, and solutions are ready now. But how can the industry avoid the next problem?

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