Install taking > 20 hours

[Xfire]

Hi all,
I have been trying(!!!) to install XP professional on my
Dell PC( XEON PIII 933Mhz,512 MB and SCSI hard drive with
an Adaptec adapter).
The install has been running now for over 20 hours. I
loaded the third-party drivers by hitting F6 during the
install. It looks like the hard disk activity keeps
stopping for some time before resuming again.
Does anyone have any suggestions .

Thanks
Sachi Shankar

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,
I have been trying(!!!) to install XP professional on my
Dell PC( XEON PIII 933Mhz,512 MB and SCSI hard drive with
an Adaptec adapter).
The install has been running now for over 20 hours. I
loaded the third-party drivers by hitting F6 during the
install. It looks like the hard disk activity keeps
stopping for some time before resuming again.
Does anyone have any suggestions .

Thanks
Sachi Shankar

This sounds like a severe hard disk problem.

 

[Guest]

I have checked the drive using the SCSI utility and don't
find any errors. The drive is a Quantum Atlas 10K drive ,
very fast & reliable.
i think the problem is with the XP setup.
Any pointers would be welcome.
Thanks
Sachi

 

[Lawrence]

Did you format the Hard drive when XP setup asked you to? I shouldn't have
taken more than 35 or so minutes to install XP.
Does it boot to the XP cd?? What happens exactly, when you boot it to the
cd?

 

[Xfire13]

These are the steps:
Low level formatted the drive using the SCSI utility.
Changed the boot order to boot from CD.
When XP asks for third-party drivers, pressed F6 for my
SCSI driver. Loaded the diskette.
It is at this point that it becomes slow.
XP recognized that the disk had no OS and asked to format
the drive.
Chose NTFS for the entire drive , single partition.
It finishes the "blue" part of the install and reboots to
finish the install in GUI mode.
This is when it really gets slow. The screen says 39
minutes remaining but it is really 12-14 hours before it
changed to 35 minutes.
Hope this scenario description helps someone to help me.
Thanks in advance,
Sachi