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I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop and I was getting the blue screen of death. &nbsp;I deleted the extra partitions it had, formatted the hard drive and I am attempting to install Windows XP Pro with SP2. &nbsp;Now what is happening is that it is taking about 15 minutes to move a single minute in the step “Finalizing Installation.” &nbsp;It reads “Setup will complete in approximately 5 minutes”, which really means at the current rate that it has been going it will take about 75 minutes. &nbsp;I took out the old 256 MB RAM chip and I installed a new one thinking that may solve the problem and it didn’t. &nbsp;<br />
At one point last night, it didn’t complete the installation and I had another blue screen that mentioned something about not being able to copy file C:…$... and it read that it was dumping the physical memory. &nbsp;<br />
Also, when I first attempted to format the hard drive, it didn’t work twice. &nbsp;Do you think the hard drive is shot? &nbsp;Or is it something else? &nbsp;If it is the HD as I suspect, do you know of any good utilities that will repair or at least ignore the bad sectors? &nbsp;<br />
Any thoughts, tips or ideas would be very greatly appreciated!!!<br />

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I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop and I was getting the blue screen of death.  I deleted the extra partitions it had, formatted the hard drive and I am attempting to install Windows XP Pro with SP2.  Now what is happening is that it is taking about 15 minutes to move a single minute in the step “Finalizing Installation.”  It reads “Setup will complete in approximately 5 minutes”, which really means at the current rate that it has been going it will take about 75 minutes.  I took out the old 256 MB RAM chip and I installed a new one thinking that may solve the problem and it didn’t.  
At one point last night, it didn’t complete the installation and I had another blue screen that mentioned something about not being able to copy file C:…$... and it read that it was dumping the physical memory.  
Also, when I first attempted to format the hard drive, it didn’t work twice.  Do you think the hard drive is shot?  Or is it something else?  If it is the HD as I suspect, do you know of any good utilities that will repair or at least ignore the bad sectors?  
Any thoughts, tips or ideas would be very greatly appreciated!!!


Hard Drive Utility Program

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