Problem with XP Builld after by booting from CD

[John Littlefield]

I'm trying to install XP Pro on newly built PC. I've booted using the
Western Digital CD to prepare the HD for XP Pro SP1.

The XP CD boots fine and loads all the drivers, but when it gets to to the
"Setup is starting Windows" part of the install is crashes (usually
immediately) once I was able to get to agreement of license terms.

Any ideas are appreciated.

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Format the drive with the XP CD instead of the WD CD and try installing
again. Might just be the drive overlay software interferring.

 

[John Littlefield]

My system is crashing before I get a chance to format with XP. Is there a
way to boot to a "DOS" system consol prompt from the CD?

 

[Michael Stevens]

My system is crashing before I get a chance to format with XP. Is
there a way to boot to a "DOS" system consol prompt from the CD?

Use a Win Me bootdisk to load fdisk to delete the current hard drive
partitions . Then create a primary dos partition around 10 gig.
Boot from the XP CD, you will then have the oppertuneity, select the size
and file format of the hard dirve. I usually create a 10 gig NTFS partition
to use for the location of XP, leaving the rest of the hard drive empty and
unformatted. After XP is setup, I decide how many, what size and what format
I want to partition the remaining space.
For a Win Me boot disk, click on or cut an paste the link below into your
web browser address box.
http://www.bootdisk.com

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