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Answer» When I try to install XP on any of my 4 computers the same thing happens, it loops after reset into the "gathering system information" as if I had just started the process. It never goes any further than the red Reboot screen??? Anyone please help.Ahhh... I love these kind of problems.
Somewhere this was documented... but I lost it.
Amway, one solution is to take a hard drive and initialize it with another kind of program or system. Like running GPART of a CD. It runs under Linux and can do more things to the hard drive flags.
Or use almost any Linux that runs live off of a CD. They have either GPART or some other drive format program that can make the drive ready for XP.
Sorry I forgot the reason for this. Something about the installer can initialize the hard drive the way it ants for XP.
The drive flag (s) has to be set to MSDOS, active, boot. The partition has to be primary. Linux can format it in NTFS. But I prefer to format it again with the XP installer. I think the XP installer does a better format job. Like locking bad sectors. Hard to prove, one can spend hours on a task that never know why it went right after being wrong n times.
If it is any CONSOLATION. this kind of PROBLEM has been widely reported.
this list might not be the same problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828267
http://techtracer.com/2007/03/12/xp-installation-the-34-minute-hiccup/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_install/windows-xp-setup-freeze-at-34-minutes/ca84c69f-5944-e011-90b6-1cc1de79d2e2
Even you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_lx50ILck
The video is horrible, but he claims to have the answer!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/100688-45-install-freezes-minutes
Even Tom does not have a clean answer.
Are you using an original, retail XP CD?
Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 24, 2014, 11:46:29 AM Ahhh... I love these kind of problems.
Somewhere this was documented... but I lost it.
Amway, one solution is to take a hard drive and initialize it with another kind of program or system. Like running GPART of a CD. It runs under Linux and can do more things to the hard drive flags.
Or use almost any Linux that runs live off of a CD. They have either GPART or some other drive format program that can make the drive ready for XP.
Sorry I forgot the reason for this. Something about the installer can initialize the hard drive the way it ants for XP.
The drive flag (s) has to be set to MSDOS, active, boot. The partition has to be primary. Linux can format it in NTFS. But I prefer to format it again with the XP installer. I think the XP installer does a better format job. Like locking bad sectors. Hard to prove, one can spend hours on a task that never know why it went right after being wrong n times.
If it is any consolation. this kind of problem has been widely reported.
this list might not be the same problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828267
http://techtracer.com/2007/03/12/xp-installation-the-34-minute-hiccup/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_install/windows-xp-setup-freeze-at-34-minutes/ca84c69f-5944-e011-90b6-1cc1de79d2e2
Even you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_lx50ILck
The video is horrible, but he claims to have the answer!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/100688-45-install-freezes-minutes
Even Tom does not have a clean answer.
I feel like pulling my hair out This is happening on FOUR different computers. Since the conception of XP I have never had any problem. Still my favorite.
It's a retail copy. Had it FOREVER and I keep my stuff tight. At FIRST I used a copy of my CD, then the original.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 24, 2014, 11:46:29 AMAhhh... I love these kind of problems.
Somewhere this was documented... but I lost it.
Amway, one solution is to take a hard drive and initialize it with another kind of program or system. Like running GPART of a CD. It runs under Linux and can do more things to the hard drive flags.
Or use almost any Linux that runs live off of a CD. They have either GPART or some other drive format program that can make the drive ready for XP.
Sorry I forgot the reason for this. Something about the installer can initialize the hard drive the way it ants for XP.
I searched the problem and could not find a problem that had complete congruence.
The drive flag (s) has to be set to MSDOS, active, boot. The partition has to be primary. Linux can format it in NTFS. But I prefer to format it again with the XP installer. I think the XP installer does a better format job. Like locking bad sectors. Hard to prove, one can spend hours on a task that never know why it went right after being wrong n times.
If it is any consolation. this kind of problem has been widely reported.
this list might not be the same problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828267
http://techtracer.com/2007/03/12/xp-installation-the-34-minute-hiccup/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_install/windows-xp-setup-freeze-at-34-minutes/ca84c69f-5944-e011-90b6-1cc1de79d2e2
Even you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_lx50ILck
The video is horrible, but he claims to have the answer!
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/100688-45-install-freezes-minutes
Even Tom does not have a clean answer.
Please stop responding within the quoted text - it's difficult to figure out what you're posting. In fact, it would be easier if you don't quote the previous thread - just type your response in the quick reply box at the bottom of the page. Thank you.Ok, makes sense.
Time Out ....this is happening on 4 different PC's ? ?
No doubt it's the CD.Yeah, I thought the same thing except he said he tried a backup cd too - unless the original was corrupt and the backup was a copy of the corrupt files.It's corruption of the corrupt corruptness....
The OP should provide some more detail.
Does this happen at the 34 min mark?
Failure of XP to install after 34 min is documented.
The links above suggest an esoteric hardware issue.
It comes from:
- corrupt HDD or CD-rom drive.
- install chose wrong hardware drivers.
- some unknown hardware error.
If the failure comes before 34 min, the CD is bad.
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