unable to install xp

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spacetrucker

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I did a total upgrade on my computer new motherboard, cpu, memory, psu, cpu fan. I am having a problem installing windows. I get the blue screen of death saying something about the ntfs syst.



Any ideas?
 
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What type of installation disk do you have? Are you trying this with an upgrade disk or a full install type? Was there an installation on the 20gb WD drive already from a newer release of XP, same disk used? or an older version of Windows?
 
Could it be your Graphics card? I remember hearing that the Blue Screen is 80% of the time actually caused by the Graphics card? Can anyone verify this?
 
Having wiped a drive lately until finding a board was failing a new case went together smoothly with only a repair install. With the large swapout there you will probably have to choose the option to delete the current installation to have XP go right on after. If the current partition is still good that would only effect the three main directories of Windows, Program Files, and MyDocumentsandSettings as those are seen.

The method there wipes the installation without deletion of the partition. But you are already in the installation phase now. If you have anything important to save off of the drive at present slave it in another for temporary storage of files on another drive until after Windows is up and running on this one. Hopefully you have already backed everything up already where you wipe the clean and create a fresh partition for XP to go on. XP loves that.
 
It strikes me that that is a HDD error. It probably can't write to the drive. At least that's what it sounds like after a few beers (I always drink at dinner).
 
If you set the drive as master at the end of the cable you may have to switch the jumper to cable select or try a spare cable lying around to see if that's the problem. I doubt if the drive quit right when you swapped board, cpu, cpu fan, and memory out.
 
When you try again write down the specific error message seen and post it here. That can be researched at Microsoft or other sites quickly if needed. The other thought here on jumper settings is that drives are most always shipped in the cable select position. If that is the case then you would simply switch that to the master setting and connect the drive to the end of the primary ide cable.
 
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