Re: WinXP not installing...Any Ideas....


<cmgray74@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JAD and All,

Its a Commercial Pressed Disk from Microsoft.

I booted from a old 95 boot disk (damn why do I still have this) and
formated the drive just fine and transferred the system (command.com
etc.) fine. I did this as a test after the first few times trying to
install. The drive is like a year or so old. I replaced the original
with 2 - 40 Gig Maxtors.

I had problems installing XP before on this machine and I cannot
remember what I had to do to get it to work. I am thinking I had to
turn off the sound card in the bios and something else before I
installed. Then once installed turn it back on(?). Its terrible when
you forget stuff. I will play some more tonight.

yes i was going to mention the OB sound, however if your not getting passed
the format this really hasn't come into play yet


I was looking at the Maxtor utilities as I should "low level"/write all
zeros to the disk, as who knows what could have been picked up or
installed on this machine.

The only thing I think is weird and someone hopefully can chime in on
this is that I am only able to format NTFS. I swore on previous
installs I could format (using the Windows XP boot setup CD) Fat32. But
in all my windows installs attempts, on this machine, it does not get
me the option to format Fat32. Anyone have any ideas on why?

the 'dynamic' option is selected when doing the format?


Thanks,
Chris









JAD wrote:
<cmgray74@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I am looking for some ideas on why I am seeing a scenario happen when
I
install Windows XP and how to get around the issue...

OK the System;

AMD 1.3GHz Athlon
MSI motherboard
512 megs Ram
40 Gig Hd Maxtor
Net Gear Network Card
Video,Sound are built in the motherboard.

The motherboard was a MSI board that Gateway bought for years and then
discontinued and dumped the board. I bought a few and have had no
problems with them. The board and CPU when I bought it was very
reasonable.

The system was running Windows XP flowlessly for over 2 years. I am a
developer and its my test box. Anyways I let different family members
use this machine occastionally and it got full of spyware/crud etc so
I
decided to reinstall WinXP. I fdisked the drive and booted the WinXP
CD. Then I choose my partition and let the install format and begin
installing the O.S. to the Drive. The drive completes its formatting
and then does some sort of drive check and then the whole machine
freezes.

I have tried formatting the Drive before installing XP but no luck. I
have tried doing the quick NTFS Format and it freezes The machine just
freezes. I know I can install XP onto this machine as I ran it before
for two years. I wanna say I had to do something out of the ordinary
to
get it to install but I just can't remember what anymore. Does any one
have any ideas on how to get this thing to install XP? Or pointers to
try?

It freezes just after the formatting of the drive, on the NTFS Quick
Format it froze right in the middle.

If its not formatting from the XP disk try doing a simple format in
fat32
from a bootdisk. www.bootdisk.com . It could be the harddrive or the XP
disk. Is it a burned copy or a commercial pressed disk? I would run the
MAXTOR diagnostics on the drive. Set the CMOS to defaults before trying
the
format.



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