Problem in WinXP Installation - An Endless Installation

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PC with a new 80G HD(disk 0; Master in the Primary IDE channel), Bio
boot sequency is cd-rom/floppy/HD. When i installed WinXP Pro it booted
from the installation cd and started checking H/W, partitioning(i chose
single primary partition), formatting(NTFS) and copying files it seemed
everything was going on fine. After the first reboot the whole
proceedure of partitioning, formatting... repeated again, then rebooted
and repeated again and again. It worked in this endless manner.
Anyone knows what happened? Please help!!

Thank you!
 
Unfortunatly i cant answer why!
but can offer asistance with solving!
i had this problem with my HD its one of 3 things
(as far as i know)
1) on reboot check your bios and make sure it can
recognise your new HD as it might be too large for the
motherboard to handle (exp if old pc)
2) when you reboot after the partition you must format
your HD in DOS(m:format c:)then when you go into
installing windows you get the choice of changing the HD
type or at the bottom you can LEAVE IT ALONE make sure
you click that one!
3) if all else fails repartition it into fat32 then try
installing your orig windows then upgrade to xp when xp
up n running repartion into ntfs and format then
reinstall xp
thats all i can think of hope it helps
Krisie-D
 
Stop pressing "any key" to boot from the CD!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Thank you for your responses.

As I mentioned installation repeated at the >>FIRST<< reboot that is the
one(http://tinyurl.com/3qej6) after(http://tinyurl.com/64v7k) and before
the GUI Installation Phase(http://tinyurl.com/466rp). The installation
was not completed and it had about another 45 minutes to go. I don't
think i have to withdraw the installation CD at this monent. I hope i
made myself clear.

Any further suggestion?

**************************************************************************
Stephen Lo, Vancouver, BC., CA.
 
Thank you very much for your suggestion!

Unfortunatly i cant answer why!
but can offer asistance with solving!
i had this problem with my HD its one of 3 things
(as far as i know)
1) on reboot check your bios and make sure it can
recognise your new HD as it might be too large for the
motherboard to handle (exp if old pc)
Click to expand...

Yes, the MB recognizes my HD, it is displayed in the CMOS setup
2) when you reboot after the partition you must format
your HD in DOS(m:format c:)then when you go into
installing windows you get the choice of changing the HD
type or at the bottom you can LEAVE IT ALONE make sure
you click that one!
Click to expand...

After partitioning WinXP installation routine formatted the HD
to NTFS as the next step.
3) if all else fails repartition it into fat32 then try
installing your orig windows then upgrade to xp when xp
up n running repartion into ntfs and format then
reinstall xp
Click to expand...

Same endless repeated installation happened even the HD was formatted in
FAT32.
 
losl(removethis) said:
When i installed WinXP Pro it booted
from the installation cd and started checking H/W, partitioning(i chose
single primary partition), formatting(NTFS) and copying files it seemed
everything was going on fine. After the first reboot the whole
proceedure of partitioning, formatting... repeated again, then rebooted
and repeated again and again. It worked in this endless manner.
Anyone knows what happened? Please help!!
Click to expand...

Most BIOSes ask you to confirm a boot from CD by hitting a key, so at
the reboots you sit on your hands and let it boot the HD. If yours does
not do this, you will need to catch the first reboot and set the BIOS
boot order back to HD first
 
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