Hello Ken,

There is a Microsoft knowledge base article that may address this for you.
It is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828267  Try it.  There may be a
hardware problem with your pc.  Try starting the reinstall of XP with only
the basics - keyboard, monitor, only one hard disk and a mouse.  Disconnect 
the data and power cables from the DVD.  

Let us know, please, if that helped.

Hth - Frank 


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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken Vickery
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:41 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Reinstalling Win XP Pro fails

Stats: 1.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium; 512 Mb ram; bus 100 Mhz; C: 160 gbyte
WD hd; D: 43 gbyte WD hd; Sony DVD-RW.  I think my XP Pro disks are SP1.

Before donating my 'old' computer to our church, I chose to give them a
clean operating system with all my old files and tweaks removed.  I'm
'simply' doing a total reinstall of my XP PRO which was already on the
drive.  I loaded my XP Pro CD into my DVD-RW and booted from the CD.  All
went well through the formating and the first stage of installation.  BUT
then, after it rebooted itself, it began to continue installing more files
-- seeminly starting with 39 minutes until completion.  At 34 minutes to go,
it works a while and then the little activity indicator at the bottom of the
screen freezes and soon afterwards the harddrive activity stops.  I even let
it sit for 8 hours one time and nothing more happened.

I have tried this process about 4 times on my original C Drive, reformatting
NTFS each time, and each time it 'locks up' at the same place.

I have connected my D Drive as my C Drive and tried to run the installation
again.  Everything is normal and continues as before until it reaches that
34 minute mark.  I've tried it again and it will not get passed the 34
minute mark.

I can only guess my installation disk has gone bad over the years.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Ken

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