Getting Past the EULA screen during an initial Install of XP Home

[Guest]

I get to the EULA during a new install to a new freshly formated hard drive.
the BIOS clearly iddentifies the the drive I have been able to format it in
either fat32 or NTFS but cannot get any full version of XP Home to load upon
pucshing the F8 key to accept the EULA.
What may cause this problem? all seems ok I can install win95 and 98 but
have bought a new full package of XP Home and it will not load, by allowing
me to accept the EULA and continuing the install.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

You are using a Microsoft keyboard. You need to press the f-lock key to
enable the F8 key.

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aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Donald McDaniel]

I get to the EULA during a new install to a new freshly formated hard drive.
the BIOS clearly iddentifies the the drive I have been able to format it in
either fat32 or NTFS but cannot get any full version of XP Home to load upon
pucshing the F8 key to accept the EULA.
What may cause this problem? all seems ok I can install win95 and 98 but
have bought a new full package of XP Home and it will not load, by allowing
me to accept the EULA and continuing the install.


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Do you by chance have a keyboard which has an "F-Lock" key?
Try pressing it before you press "F8".

 

[Alex Nichol]

I get to the EULA during a new install to a new freshly formated hard drive.
the BIOS clearly iddentifies the the drive I have been able to format it in
either fat32 or NTFS but cannot get any full version of XP Home to load upon
pucshing the F8 key to accept the EULA.

Do not format the disk in advance - if you have (especially if a FAT 32
partition bigger than 32 GB) remove that first; FDISK. Then on the
clean disk you should be able to boot the CD, and make the partition in
course of installation.