Re-installation of XP hangs

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Snowy

I have a laptop which had XP Home SP2 preinstalled on it and have decided to
do a fresh install of XP prior to giving the laptop to a relative. I zero
wiped the hard drive and booted the machine with the manufacturer's Product
Recovery CD ROM which has XP on it. All goes well until the setup screen
which gives the options to press Enter, press R or Press F3.
[ http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPpro1setup.jpg ]. No key works and I can't
get any further so any suggestions as to how to proceed would be appreciated.
Thanks
Snowy
 
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Rich Barry

Snowy, do you have a Recovery Disk with an Image of WinXP on it or is it
a OEM version of WinXP??
 
S

Snowy

Hi Rich Barry
Its a OEM disk issued by the maunfacturer with the laptop. Its title is
"Fujitsu Siemens Product Recovery CD-ROM Windows XP Home Edition-SP2". When
i run it on another machine, its the normal installation menu that appears.
Cheers
Snowy
 
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Rich Barry

Could you do a fdisk and delete and then create a new partition, make it
active and then format ?
 
S

Snowy

Hi RB
I have managed to vercome the problem. I downloaded and flashed an up to
date BIOS from the manufacturer's website. The Windows Setup sailed through
and the disk is formatting as we speak!
Many thanks for your interest and help.

Snowy
 
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Rich Barry

Good for you , Snowy. Sometimes a setting in the Bios is the culprit.
So a new Bios might have disabled what was causing the difficulty. And,
maybe not.
 

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