Installation problem

[sarbruis]

So I'm attempting to install XP Home. I put the CD in, it boots from
the CD, I select my partition, it copies the files onto the HDD, and
then it restarts. It's now supposed to automatically boot from the HDD
and go into the GUI part of the installation. But it doesn't. It
either goes right back to the blue-screen-part of the installation or
when I change the boot priority and allow only the HDD to boot, it
doesn't do anything. It hangs after POSTing, after the Verifying DMI
Pool Data . . . . . . . . part. Just sits there. What the heck. How
do I get this stupid thing to boot from the HDD and continue with the
installation? I've reformatted and deleted partitions and all that
nonsense, and of course it's not working at all.

Any help would be awesome. Thanks.

 

[Thota Umesh]

Hiii, you did all right untill it copied all files to ur hard disk when its
restarts u need to select the option to boot from harddisk instead of cd
else the cd will start again. if u dont know how to do this or are unable to
see the option to skip boot from cd on ur moniter eject the cd let the boot
run to harddisk then when the installation continues place back the cd.

Hope this helps...,
Umesh Thota
www.windowsworkshop.com

 

[Guest]

1st,You wont get an installation w/o problems if you dont let it format the hd
partition.With several partitions,you should enter recovery before,select 1
For
disk C:,Or if you get some error text,simply typeiskPart In
DiskPart,delete youre
partitions 1 at a time,and create one after the deletion,once all are "Raw"
press
ESC key,type:EXIT Reboot to xp cd,let it format C: You can format the
rest in
xp,if they are formatted as you install xp,sometimes this also causes
problems...