XP Installation problem

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A friend of mine is having a major installation problem with XPPro

He was running Win 98 and needed to upgrade for the latest AOL upgrade, so
he went and bought a copy of XP.
the installation goes OK until 26 min remaining, which is on the final
section "Updating programmes" etc and finalising the installation. It then
seems not to go anywhere, he has left it for 4 hours and still shows 26 mins
remaining. The harddrive is blinking, the mouse is working and the screen
still has the green dots moving at the bottom and the info panes change.
He has tried rebooting booting but it just gets to this point and no more.

He has enough disk space and RAM.

Any ideas anyone??
Help!

TIA
 
Yes, Buy a new computer. Anyone who is FOOLISH enough to Install AOL
deserves what they get. Also, If your friend is DUMB enough to WASTE money
on AOL, They can cerainnly afford a new computer.
It never ceases to amaze me what people are capable of
EVEN WHEN THEY ARE TOLD OVER AND OVER "NOT TO USE AOL"
It is OVERPRICED, SPYWARE, MALWARE, AND
V I R U S W A R E !!!!!!!!!!!
Searches for "Trouble with AOL" gets 1,910,000 hits off Google.
Now, 1,910,000 people can't be wrong!
 
olympus said:
A friend of mine is having a major installation problem with XPPro

He was running Win 98 and needed to upgrade for the latest AOL upgrade, so
he went and bought a copy of XP.
the installation goes OK until 26 min remaining, which is on the final
section "Updating programmes" etc and finalising the installation. It then
seems not to go anywhere, he has left it for 4 hours and still shows 26 mins
remaining. The harddrive is blinking, the mouse is working and the screen
still has the green dots moving at the bottom and the info panes change.
He has tried rebooting booting but it just gets to this point and no more.

He has enough disk space and RAM.

Any ideas anyone??
Help!

TIA
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Take no notice of rants! see if this is any help

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpupgdissues.html
 
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