If you are having Old system and plan to upgrade your windows with new version while upgrade of Windows XP from any newer version of Windows, you might face one or more of below given symptoms:

During Windows XP Setup after the first reboot you may get any of the following error messages:
The setup might stop the progress with a blank black screen after the first reboot.

Stop: 0×0000007b (0xf898963c, 0xc0000034, 0×00000000, 0×00000000)

Setup has determined that Drive C: is corrupted and cannot be repaired. To quit setup press F3.

No operating system.

Windows could not start because of the following ARC firmware boot configuration problem. Did not properly generate ARC name for HAL and System path. Please check the windows documentation about ARC configuration options and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

The secondary hard disk that worked fine with other Windows operating system versions might appear to be corrupted or Can have zero byte of size, After completing the installation process,

After these activities, may stop the upgrade process also your booting process will stop .All drives stored data becomes hard to find and you face the challenging situation Data loss.

On basis of this issue

You may come across this behavior if you are using the partition recovery software for controlling your hard drive. Few versions of such drive overlay software might not be compatible with Microsoft Windows XP. Same situation with the upgrade process f it does not complete then you can face the serious situation of Windows partition loss and thus data loss.

To keep away from this problem in future, contact the vendor of drive overlay software make query about the solution to this problem.

Don’t try to use fdisk/mbr command from Windows startup disk or fixmbr command in the Windows XP Recovery Console. Both these commands would destroy the drive overlay MBR information and it might cause severe data loss.

Solution of this type of problem, you need to repartition and reformat your hard drive possibly by using Microsoft Windows XP CD and then reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP. The format operation will remove all your hard drive partitions and you won’t be able to access data. It will demand for partition recovery .

By: simpson Raid, partition recovery software

Tagged with: Drive Software • Software • Windows

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