Re-installation of WinXP

[Kenny]

Hi,
4 days on and I'm still having problems re-installing WinXP.
Have formatted both hard drives 22gb and 40gb. Set the smallest as main
drive in the bios. Formatted it using a floppy boot disk and then tried to
install winxp. Runs through the process as far as the "starting windows"
screen then still locks up!
Ran a PCDoctor disk to check everything and the only error it comes up with
is that there's no Hard Disk Controllers.Is this what's causing me problems?
What else should I be looing for? It never was this difficult formatting and
re-installing Win98.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
I'm probably overlooking the obvious.

T.I.A.
Kenny M

 

[aragorn]

you don't need a floppy disk anymore to format and
fdisk...you can do all that with the winXP CD. I also
would suggest to format to NTFS, since it's much better
and preferred for XP...or did you do that?

 

[Ron Rector]

Usually when setup hangs at the area your hanging at it
means 1 of 3 things are happening:
1: Memory may be corrupted. Perhaps try pulling out a
stick if you have more than one. Try different scenerios
to test it out.

2: Perhaps your motherboard is not ACPI compliant. When it
says to press F6 to install third party raid/scsi drivers
hit F7. This will load a standard hal instead of an acpi
hal.

3: You may need drivers for your hard drive controllers.
Go to your mainboard manufacturer's website to see if
there are any raid/udma drivers. Perhaps check for a bios
update as well.