hanging installation

G

Guest

I am trying to re-install XP Home, and I can get past the installation
procedures and what not. After it has installed, the computer reboots, and
brings me to the setup procedures. Things will work fine until near the end,
at around 9 minutes left of the setup, the setup will freeze, and I cannot do
anything.

I tried deleting that particular partition, and even re-partitioning the
drive, but to no avail. No matter what, it seems always hang around the '9
minutes left' range.

What can I do to successfully complete the installation?
 
G

Guest

Thanks for the links. I checked them out, but I am not upgrading my version
of Windows. I am installing a fresh copy of Windows XP!
 
M

Malke

jamesymobilio said:
Thanks for the links. I checked them out, but I am not upgrading my
version of Windows. I am installing a fresh copy of Windows XP!

You mentioned that you are trying to reinstall XP Home. There are two
ways of installing XP - a clean install where the hard drive is
formatted first and an upgrade install where the new operating system
is installed "on top" of the old operating system. If you are doing the
latter, try a clean install instead. Formatting the drive will wipe all
current data, so you would expect to reinstall programs from cd and
restore data from backups. Be sure all peripherals (printers, scanners,
cameras) are disconnected and any BIOS-level antivirus is disabled. If
you are already doing a clean install and the installation is failing,
you probably have bad hardware. Start with a RAM test - I like
Memtest86+ from www.memtest.org - and let the test run for an extended
time, like overnight (unless you get errors immediately). If the RAM is
good, then run a hard drive diagnostic utility, which you can get from
the drive mftr.'s website.

If you'd like more help, please post back with your computer specs and
why you felt the need to reinstall Windows so we can narrow down the
reasons for the installation failure.

Malke
 
G

Guest

I ran a test on the memory and it gave me a lot of errors, so I went out and
bought new sticks of ram. However, I have installed these new sticks, and it
still would not work, so I ran the test again, and I still got errors on my
RAM!

I am quite sure this is not a hard drive issue, as the drive that I am
installing XP on is a brand new drive. I felt the need to reinstall Windows
because the drive before had corrupted, but thankfully I had a back up of it,
so I had to buy a new master drive to store the OS on it.

My system specs:
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
VIA KT266A Chipset
512MB DDR RAM
2 x 80GB 7200RPM HDD
 
M

Malke

jamesymobilio said:
I ran a test on the memory and it gave me a lot of errors, so I went
out and bought new sticks of ram. However, I have installed these new
sticks, and it still would not work, so I ran the test again, and I
still got errors on my RAM!

I am quite sure this is not a hard drive issue, as the drive that I am
installing XP on is a brand new drive. I felt the need to reinstall
Windows because the drive before had corrupted, but thankfully I had a
back up of it, so I had to buy a new master drive to store the OS on
it.

My system specs:
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
VIA KT266A Chipset
512MB DDR RAM
2 x 80GB 7200RPM HDD

If your original RAM tested bad and then your new RAM tested bad, it
means one of two things:

1. You are incredibly unlucky in buying RAM. ;-) Make sure the RAM you
are buying is good quality (Kingston, Crucial, etc.) and that it is the
correct RAM for your motherboard. I would test the RAM in a different
motherboard, but I suspect #2 below.

2. Your motherboard is bad.

In any case, a software solution (reinstalling XP) will not solve
hardware issues, and you have hardware issues.

Malke
 

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