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XP Install - Hangs on 1st reboot (MSDOS portion complete)

Asked by nvms in Operating Systems Miscellaneous

Tags: xp, hangs, reboot, install

Hi

Am I the only guy who thinks Bill was pretty tight when he released the XP OS ? Win98 install on a bare PC was as simple as running setup. Am I correct in my curent method, or is there a simpler way (I will come to my question later)...

1) Locate a Win9x boot disk and FDISK drive C, then reboot and format
2) Boot again from A: ensuring CD rom is detected then run A:\SMARTDRV.EXE
3) At the DOS prompt go to C:\I386 and type WINNT
4) Pray that nothing stuffs up such as .....

I have just built a P4 2.4GHz HT computer on an Intel G865 mainboard, 512MbPC3200 RAM and 80Gb100 HDD. All very vanilla, no nasty SCSI cards. No PCI hardware at-all, i.e. onboard video and audio. I tested this on 2 motherboards, and 2 processors. The problem is simple, The XP install goes OK as far as initially copying files required for installation, then, when informed that the MSDOS portion of the setup is complete the PC reboots (first reboot) and just hangs with a flashing * - * cursor in the LH corner. I tried everything to coax the system to continue. Nothing installed on the drive seemed runable ($WIN_NT$.~XX folders etc etc) . The only solution that has worked was to install a compact version of Windows 98, then run setup.exe off the XP CD. All is now well. Any ideas incase this happens again ?

All the best

Stewart Wood
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