Good Lord, so many times I tried to install the SP2 on my Dell Dimension 4500.
My problem was always the Bluescreen Horror after rebooting and I spent all
these hours restoring to SP1!!!
Problem for me was that I had partitioned the C-drive (having multiple
XP-installations) and after reboot the booting did not find the system. I
really tried all options, using Norton System Works Premier boot-CD and XP
recovery console. But everything failed. And, cursing Dell for not supporting
the problem (other then a link to Microsoft on how to restore to SP1), I
thougt I had to buy myself a new computer.
Until I the other day found the soloution using the XP Recovery Consol.
The crucial issue was that I had to change the booting path using bootcfg
command. This command scans the drive for XP istallations and lets you add
and bootable installations.
I had to do this on both partitions seperately and after doing that I can
now easyly switch between my two XP installations.
TIP : A very useful thing to do before you do the SP2 install, is to install
the Recovery Console on you C-drive On restarting / rebooting you then get
the option to boot into the recovery console on the hard disk and it will
load very much faster from there than from a cd-drive.
The bootcfg command "add" solved my problem. After some trial and error I
messed up the boot-ini file and had to cleans it using the boot.ini edit
function described in the bottom part oft the page here :
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/bootini.htm
Well, I just wish that Dell would have figured this out for me .... It would
have saved me so many hours failing to install the Windows XP SP2.
"waygol" wrote:
> Tried installing xp pro sp2 three different ways with the same end result.
> Get blue screen of death. stop: c000021 unknown hard error.
> \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll.
> So here is the scoop.
> Dell Dimension 4400 running xp sp1 fine.
> Used Microsoft update center to download and install sp2. get blue screen
> above at reboot. can start up fine in safe mode. can not start up in safe
> mode with networking or normal startup.
> So did roll back.
> Downloaded full corporate sp2 update and got same result.
> So did fresh format and reinstall Dell xp with sp1 to get back to square
> one. did all auto updates short of sp2. then tried full corporate xp2
> update. same results.
> So did fresh format and used dell reinstallation CD with SP2. goes through
> and copies all files and when done copying reboots to run setup, get the blue
> screen noted above. In addition to above I have tried using a different net
> work card.
> So anyone have any thoughts? I have done at least 25 computers from sp1 to
> sp2 and have never had a situation like this.
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