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Windows XP is an operating system that is based on Windows NT and Windows 2000 core. Technically speaking, the NT conventions of protected memory are used by Windows XP to prevent system crashes as it runs programs in their individual RAM locations. If you try to upgrade to Windows XP, the setup gives you two options: 'Upgrade' and 'Install a New Copy'.  But at times, you find issues wile upgrading to Windows XP and the setup returns an error instead. The solution might require you to format the drive and install Windows XP. Thus, maintaining a data backup is the basic requirement to restore information later. However, after data loss if you find that data backup fails to give expected results, you can use data recovery software as the recovery solution.

While trying to upgrade to Windows XP from an earlier operating system, the upgrade might fail with the following error message on screen:

Error: Setup found some blocking issues.

Blocking issues Setup found some issues that will prevent you from upgrading your Windows Installation.

You must fix all of these issues before you can upgrade to Windows XP

"Other Operating System found"

Cause

By other operating system, Windows refers to the Windows XP installation files that might have not been completely removed while uninstalling it. Thus, folders from the original Windows XP installation interrupt the upgrade process of Windows XP and prevent it to proceed.

Solution

You should follow these steps to fix such problems:

• You should first verify that all external devices connected to your system are Windows XP compatible.
• Check Device Manager for any unknown devices listed. Remove them to proceed further
• Next, you should delete all Windows XP installation files of previous system. Before doing so, you need to disable antivirus software running on your computer.  After this, you can try to upgrade to Windows XP
• If the above measures don't help, you need to format the drive and install Windows XP. You can restore lost data from backup. In case if backup is unavailable or currently exists in invalid state, you should use data recovery applications. These are advanced data recovery software specifically designed to scan a logically crashed drive to recover lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a renowned fat data recovery application, built with indigenous technology to recover lost data from Windows 7 (currently in RC1), Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. It is a non-destructive tool that supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

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