Over the past month I've made several hardware changes (new power supply, New main board, new CPU) only to find out that my recovery disk from the manufacturer will not work with the hardware changes. So I bought a new copy of home XP. Installation starts out fine but gets stuck. I gets stuck with a blue screen. At the top it says "Windows Setup". At the bottom it says"Setup is booting windows." I let it sit like that for hours but nothing happens. I called XP support. They said it sounds like a hardware problem. Do I need to load drivers before Windows will boot?
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Installation problems....HELP
- Thread starter kurnlor
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It sounds more like you are trying this on a complete system that had a preinstalled version of Windows on it. Often you have to delete the current partition to avoid problems. Once you boot with the installation disk and reach the "R" for recovery console to repair or press enter now to start the installer you simply press the enter key to reach the next screen.
When the hard drive is displayed and drive space is totaled the option to press the "L" key to delete will bring you to another screen where you press the "D" to confirm that. Once you reach the R or press enter now screen again and go into the next screen you should "C" and the amount of drive space available shown. You simply highlight the drive and answer yes when prompted to have XP installed on the drive. The installer will partition and format a single primary partition followed with the copying of the installation files. Once the necessary files have been copied the system is restarted.
When the hard drive is displayed and drive space is totaled the option to press the "L" key to delete will bring you to another screen where you press the "D" to confirm that. Once you reach the R or press enter now screen again and go into the next screen you should "C" and the amount of drive space available shown. You simply highlight the drive and answer yes when prompted to have XP installed on the drive. The installer will partition and format a single primary partition followed with the copying of the installation files. Once the necessary files have been copied the system is restarted.
I hope you didn't get stuck with a bad disk there. Since you are not able to reach the screen where you have the option to press R to repair a current installation with the recovery console or install XP now by pressing the enter key that may be what you have there. You could see if you can exchange the disk for another copy. Take a look at the disk itself to make sure it's not scratched up or covered with finger marks.
The only time you would see a usb device stall a system is when you can't get any further then the bios screen. This is being seen after the installer is already running pointing at the cd itself as being a bad copy. The disk was just bought new and stalls during the installation phase? The installer itself is what seems to be locking up there.
The one thought here that would play a role would be trying to install Windows and the installer is getting hung trying to properly detect one device. It certainly wouldn't hurt there to disconect anything. But the problem seems to be where it stalls at one place all of the time like something in the installer itself is missing.