XP installation hangs at 32 minutes left

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I recently did some majore parts rearranging with my two computers. I originally had an HP Pavilion 7915. I took the hard drive from that computer and put it in my old system with a new motherboard and CPU (a Chaintech with an AMD Duron). The computer froze on startup every time so I ddecided to run the HP recovery on the drive, reformat, and reinstall XP. This only lead to more problems and the dreaded NTLDR is missing endless loop. I then tried to install XP with my standalone Windows XP Upgrade CD (if this worked, I would then run HP recovery on the hard drive that I had put in my HP tower so that I would still have two different XPs on two different computers). This solution got me further than any of the other ones, but this time it froze during XP setup. It froze when at 32 minutes remaining and when it was "Installing network." It doesn't really freeze, it more or less just stops installing. The screen promoting all the benefits of XP keeps changing and the CD drive keeps spinning, but it never moves from that point. I have messed around with my BIOS, updated BIOS, removed all peripherals, and repeatedly reinstalled XP all with the same result.

I have a very limited amount of time in which to work on this computer so any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
An HP Recovery CD will only work when your computer has
the exact same hardware installed as it did when you purchased
it. Now that the hardware has changed, the HP recovery CD
is now useless. All you can do is purchase a conventional
"full version" of Windows XP and perform a "clean install"
if a "repair install" does not work.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I recently did some majore parts rearranging with my two computers. I originally had an HP Pavilion 7915. I
took the hard drive from that computer and put it in my old system with a new motherboard and CPU (a Chaintech
with an AMD Duron). The computer froze on startup every time so I ddecided to run the HP recovery on the
drive, reformat, and reinstall XP. This only lead to more problems and the dreaded NTLDR is missing endless
loop. I then tried to install XP with my standalone Windows XP Upgrade CD (if this worked, I would then run HP
recovery on the hard drive that I had put in my HP tower so that I would still have two different XPs on two
different computers). This solution got me further than any of the other ones, but this time it froze during
XP setup. It froze when at 32 minutes remaining and when it was "Installing network." It doesn't really
freeze, it more or less just stops installing. The screen promoting all the benefits of XP keeps changing and
the CD drive keeps spinning, but it never moves from that point. I have messed around with my BIOS, updated
BIOS, removed all peripherals, and repeatedly reinstalled XP all with the same result.
|
| I have a very limited amount of time in which to work on this computer so any help would be greatly
appreciated.
 
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