Operating Installation Question
Mar 17, 2005
I have an older pc that I want to put Windows XP on.I went into the BIOS and it only has two options for the boot sequence (floppy Drive and Hard drive). I completely formated the hard drive so it does not have an operating system on it. I went into the Microsoft website and created my 6 disks for installing Windows XP with floppies. My problem is that when I try to install XP on the system, once it gets to the part right in the beginning when the system is configured, the computer will restart itself in an endless cycle. Any ideas what may be going on? I remember that this same system had the same problem before and I ended up having to install the operating system through windows. I don't have that option now since the drive has been formated.
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Nov 18, 2006
He took it home tonight because its being playing up over the past week and yesterday it refused to boot xp. He tried the recovery console himself and im not sure what he did but upon starting the computer up xp immediately jumps into "reinstalling windows" at the install stage. It gets down to 33 minutes and the computer restarts and repeats the whole process. I cant format the drive as theres important work on it and im not going to be able to take my computer home till next weekend. I was hoping someone could offer an alternative solution to a format?
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May 8, 2007
I recently bought a new computer and had windows XP installed as well as having Norton AntiVirus program installed (came with a package). Now, when I try installing a HP printer the installation CD does not work but when I try it on my laptop it does work. Could it be the norton blocking the CD installation? What would I have to do in order to fix this problem.
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Nov 20, 2008
i got 2 installed versions of XP and one is on my D: drive which is my recovery drive and i need to uninstall that version i know how to do it from the control panel but the problem is i cant log on it its not activated and i don't have the product key anymore but im on the other version installed and it works fine i don't know if there is a way to access the d: drive from command prompt and do it that way or what or the recovery console perhaps
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Sep 15, 2006
I need reinstall windows at the moment i have XP but i need to instal windows 2000 because it is the only cd i have cant find or borrow XP from any were and i need to take my laptop this afternoon.
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Jul 26, 2005
I recently reformatted my computer and installed windows xp home and keep running into a problem when starting the computer. It tells me that two operating systems are installed and that I need to select which one I want to run. Both are windows xp home. If I choose the first one it runs fine if I choose the second one I get a message that says: Windows could not start because of a computer dis hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
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Nov 6, 2007
I just installed XP on my Toshiba A60 Laptop and I am getting no sound or battery meter. When I look at my device manager under 'Other Devices' there is Multimedia Audio Controller, PCI Modem and SM Bus Controller which all need drivers.
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Jun 6, 2006
I wanted to do a fresh install of Xp pro on a hard drive i had laying around. I ran the disk. Deleted all the old stuff on hard drive. the disk seemed to run normally. Except when it stopped running during install. it did this about 5 times. I got the message..1. cannot copy the file... msvct.dll ( at 2%)2. cannot copy the file... mswsock.dll ( at 5% 3. cannot copy the file... msvcp60.dll ( at 8%04. cannot copy the file... msvfw32.dll (at 9% )5. cannot copy the file... msxml.dll ( at 9% )
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Aug 8, 2006
my latest problem is having installed windows live on my daughter,s pc every time she uses it it freezes every few minutes and needs a reboot to sort out, i will say that it is the first time messenger has been used on the pc in ? so i dont know if its just a windows live issue or if it happens with all im,s,
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Dec 4, 2003
Well, I just recently installed XP clean on a friends computer, and While doing so I had no speakers connected to the computer. Then after, I plugged them in and get no sound. In the device manager under the legacy audio cards and codecs, it says "This device is working properly", but through the control panel under sounds and audio devices, it says there are no audio devices detected.
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Oct 22, 2007
I have a friend that has a computer with an illegal version, i told to resolve it with microsoft, or he can backup the data neeed and do a new installation, well guess waht he did a new installation w/o backup, so actually he lost applications and data, question:it is possible with any recovery utility for hd to recover at least the documents from ms word and the email messages and address book from outlook express, even when this hd already have a new win xp prom ? is there a software that will be able to recover evrything that was on the hd, i really doubt it but maybe there is a posiblity
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Aug 28, 2005
At 32 minutes in the windows XP home setup, in the "installing network" stage, my computer freezes. This has happened twice now
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Aug 5, 2009
I've got this old mobo Abit VT7. I want to install XP on it. However, the XP disc doesn't recognize SATA hard drives. So I downloaded official SATA driver from the Abit website http://tinyurl.com/kua5qz and tries to slipstream my XP disc following the instructions set forth here http://tinyurl.com/37anvn . I am not too clear how to incorporate the drivers from the official drivers, but Nlite seems to be able to find the drivers once I pointed it to the top unzipped driver directory, and I selected the XP folder for it. However, the newly created XP disc still fails to recognize the SATA hard drives. Alternatively, I believe I could have a boot floppy which would load the drivers in, then I launch the setup in the XP installation CD via command line. But I don't know how to create a boot disc which has those SATA drivers in.
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May 4, 2007
I've lately had some problems with my win-xp (home) following installation/ un-installation of daemon tools that corrupted some registry files. After an unsuccesfull repair-instalation of xp, i re-installed xp onto the secondary partition of my hard drive (d:, the original instalation being on c. I was intending to format the c: drive, then instal a copy of xp-pro i have onto it
finally moving the files i want to keep back from the d: drive onto the c: drive.The problem i'm now having is on formatting i recieve the error message 'system partition is not allowed to be formatted', as it is the primary partition. Can i go about formatting this drive in partitions and proceed with the re-install without having to remove the files i have on the d: drive? How might i go about this?
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Jul 4, 2006
I started up the computer, watched the BIOS detect the RAM, hard drive, etc, and then was greeted by a blank screen instead of the Windows boot screen. It proceeded though, and after a few seconds flashed to another black screen, this time displaying the cursor. I'm guessing this is the logon screen, but nothing displays but the cursor. (Note that the video card and monitor are both fine...I tried swapping them out just in case.)
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May 31, 2008
I'm trying to fix my friends Hp and I usually know what im doing. But here I have no idea what to do. I tried going into the bios to change the boot order to cd to format and I can't. Can anyone tell me what to do.I changed out his hard drive with mine and it does nothing. just posts and goes to a black screen instead of trying to boot and blue screening as it usually do when you change hardrives between two computers.Changed the Ide cables no luck.
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Jan 8, 2010
I need to install Windows XP Pro on my laptop. Currently it has Vista. Some people are selling these installation CDs (and keys) on ebay. Can I buy it from there?
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Jul 26, 2006
Whenever I try to install something, the window that shows thats its installing closes and installation stops. I restart the install, but it keeps on closing and at different times.
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Apr 24, 2010
I am trying to install SP3 on a Windows XP Home (currently SP2). The installation is hung on "Finishing Installation - Performing cleanup". I downloaded the installer from the MS Download center (it didn't appear in Windows Update). Is it safe to turn off the computer (since I can't close the installer), or should I let it sit for a while longer (it's been hanging for a few hours)?
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Oct 28, 2006
In performing a clean installation of Windows XP is it best to install the microsoft updates first once you've downloaded them from the Microsoft catalog? For instance Microsoft updates, Chipset drivers, Video drivers etc.
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Apr 18, 2008
I tried to install XP Pro SP2 on my laptop and somehow my product key was no good. I first reformated my hard drive and Windows installation begun but I had to get out since the product key was invalid.I finally noticed I had the wrong disk. When I finally found the right disk with the right key, the old installation kept on coming back where I left it. How can I start all over again, with the reformating and reinstallation from scratch? I really don't know how to do this. Is there a special command at reboot? Do I have to put the CD in or not? I'm not sure anymore since it's been years since I've tried this.
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Aug 21, 2009
Both my friend and I had modem shutdowns upon installing SP3. My computer kept telling me my modem was defective (bought three more before it occurred to me that my computer was LYING to me).
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Apr 4, 2007
Firstly, I currently have Vista installed, and wanted to install XP again. How can I approach this while achieving dual boot features? Second, if the only way to get dual boot is to reinstall XP and then Vista, how do I do it because my computer only came with Vista restore disks.Third, if I do reinstall Xp then Vista, what is the easiest way I can literally take my computer the way it is, all programs, documents, settings, etc... and then bring it back after I do a clean install. I currently do have a 60gb external hard drive as well.
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Jun 10, 2010
Does anyone know how to install windows xp on a computer with 48 mb ram? The setup won't let me. Says I need 64 mb ram. Then stops install. Does anyone know how to bypass this setting. I know it will run slow. I just want to do it.
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Jul 30, 2005
I read the article on how to slipstream SP2 into a new installation CD but is there any way to integrate up-to-date drivers (chipset, SATA, GPU) into it aswell?
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Apr 10, 2010
Standard CD install
Setup process does not get past the initial window and I notice the CD drive running constantly ??
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Sep 22, 2009
I got A blue Screen of Death saying "Unmountable Boot Volume", though for the first few seconds,I see the Windows XP logo. I don't have any caching or shadowing things in my BIOS.(which in my opinion just sounds like garbage that MS threw on there as a default for BSOD's) I've been receiving a malware warning from Avast anti-virus, I had AVG, Avast, and Ad-aware running in the background, and only Avast detected it. I have my Windows XP CD, but it does not detect my XP installation, and only sees one of my other(non-functional) installations.And.I don't know the Admin password to that anyway. so I can't do a CheckDisk or anything like that. I'm writing this from a Knoppix Live-CD, so I can't use any windows Applications that might fix the problem. oh.... And another Detail... Under The Partition thingy for installing windows, it says that the file type is unknown. I'm not sure, but I think it was the NTFS.
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Aug 25, 2007
I bought a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ104E Laptop which came with Vista. I wanted XP, so I booted from my XP CD but got to a screen where it said that no internal harddisk(s) found.Anyway, I paid someone $150 and he somehow installed XP. Have no clue how he did it and he won't tell.
However after having XP, I could find only some of the XP drivers for the laptop after hours and hours of searching the web. At the moment I have the USB's , Ethernet, Modem, and sound working but can't use the Camera, the AV Mode button, the S Button, Card Reader, and the Alps pointing device.
I want to do a fresh re-installation of XP on the Laptop but am not in a mood to throw away $150 again.
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Oct 11, 2010
i am not able to install the sp3 for office 10
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Mar 6, 2006
I recently got a new motherboard (64bit) and a fresh new hard drive. When I finished putting everything together I began the process of installing Windows XP. I only have the upgrade version of Windows XP so I had to install 98 first. But When I had begun the installtion for Windows XP (New installation not upgrade) I eventually came to the XP blue screen, thus unnallowing me to install XP.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005,0xF78360BF,0xF7C82208,0xF781F08)
*** pci.sys - Address F78360BF base at F782F000, DateStamp 3b7d855c
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Jan 11, 2005
Sequence of events: Win XP Home SP 0 problem began with spyware, which I removed [ using spybot 1.3, ad-aware SE, HiJackThis 1.99, CWShredder, About:buster I tried to update to SP1, from the Windows update site, as well as from a Win XP SP1 update disk, but received an error. In Event Viewer, Windows Update Agent, Event ID 20, so I renamed C:Windowssystem32catroot2 to c:windowssystem32old_catroot2, & retried the SP1 installation. Re-ran SP1 setup / installation, which results in this error: Service Pack 1 Setup Error The file c:program filescommon filessystemole dbmsdasql.dll is open or in use by another program.Start > run > javascript:navigator.appMinorVersion results: Q823353;Q832894;Q867801
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