Clean Windows XP Pro install hangs

G

Guest

Hi all,

My hard disk was corrupted; I installed a new hard disk and began to install
Windows XP Pro. The text-based setup mode recognized the new disk,
partitioned and formatted it, and loaded all the setup files.

However, when it rebooted to begin the GUI-based phase of setup, it hangs at
the Windows XP loading screen.

I have previously been able to do at least three clean installs of XP Pro on
this machine, using the old hard disk.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
G

Guest

I can't really tell you why it's hanging at that stage. Have you tried
deleting and recreating the partition during the setup? Did you format in
NTFS?

Jay
 
G

Guest

I have already tried restarting the setup process, and deleting and
recreating the partition, formatting in NTFS.

Would it be helpful, prehaps, just to keep repeating the process, if there's
no known source of the error?

Nicole
 
J

jimbo

Nicole_WLU said:
Hi all,

My hard disk was corrupted; I installed a new hard disk and began to install
Windows XP Pro. The text-based setup mode recognized the new disk,
partitioned and formatted it, and loaded all the setup files.

However, when it rebooted to begin the GUI-based phase of setup, it hangs at
the Windows XP loading screen.

I have previously been able to do at least three clean installs of XP Pro on
this machine, using the old hard disk.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I had a WinXP Home fail to install on a system that I had WinXp on and
decided to install fresh and start over. I ended up removing hardware
that I had installed after the first WinXP installation. A DVD burner,
a TV capture card, etc. All I had left was the minimum hardware
required, a hard drive, keyboard, monitor and mouse. Everything
installed OK. Then I added back all of my hardware with no further
problems.

Good luck, jimbo
 
G

Guest

Does the new drive exceed 137GB? If so, maybe you need to enable 48-bit LBA
in the BIOS or update your motherboard BIOS to a 48-bit LBA friendly version.
Just trying to table some ideas...
 

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