Win XP Home Setup "Starting up Windows" Freeze

[Computer Man5]

Hi Guys. I just bought a new Toshiba 20gb Hardrive for my Thinkpad 570 Laptop. I have Win98SE on it now. When i boot from the XP Home CD to install XP it loads all the drivers and then it says starting up windows and the HD light stays on permanently. I went to Microsoft website and this is a common problem, but i cant find a Driver (scsi, ide etc) or bios update for it for the setup to work. Any Ideas guys??

Thanks

 

[tonsofpcs]

What are the full specs of the system? Do these meet or exceed the minimum requirements for XP Home?

 

[Computer Man5]

Thanks for replying. I had WinXP on before i got this HD. My old one crashed which is why i got this new one. Anyway my specs Are:

IBM Thinkpad 570
P3 433mhz
128mb RAM
20gb Toshiba HD
8mb Ati Radeon 7500 Mobile Graphics
Windows 98 (Fine but i would like XP, Ill try to get 2000)

 

[4W4K3]

2000 should work. my laptop is similiar to yours, and it runs fine. i haven't tried XP on mine yet...probably switch to it this weekend if i have time.