Installing XP problem.

When I try to install my Windows XP disk, it starts the setup and hangs
after it prints 'Windows Setup' and two underlines. I had XP installed to
this computer but it didn't like my 160Gig hard drive that much, it would
give me a error saying it couldn't mount the HD if I didn't shut it down
correctly, all I had to do was boot to safe mode and it would start up.
My current setup is 3 HDs, 20G, 160G (my old boot drive) and 320G, all
EIDE drives. I have disconnected everything except the 20G, which is were
I want to install XP but it still hangs. The strange thing is once it did
want to install and it got past the point it locks up, but I didn't have
any free partition to install it on, I reset my computer and moved the
files off the partition on the 20G and rebooted, thats when the problems
started.

The reason I had to reinstall XP was because my power supply was dieing and
it corrupted my 160G. The drive is still good, just need to repartition
and reformat and it works like new.

Windows 2000 installs without a problem with the same hardware and
everything runs but 2000 has been acting strange lately. If I have to I
will reinstall 2000, but I want XP since a couple programs I have don't run
under Windows 2000.
The only thing I didn't try is upgrading my current installation to XP, I
really don't want to try that, unless I have too.

Any help would be nice.

Usually a hw problem
Youve used the hd manu. checking utility?
Youve tested the memory www.memtest.org ?


"Dave" <leaper@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> When I try to install my Windows XP disk, it starts the setup and hangs
> after it prints 'Windows Setup' and two underlines. I had XP installed
> to
> this computer but it didn't like my 160Gig hard drive that much, it would
> give me a error saying it couldn't mount the HD if I didn't shut it down
> correctly, all I had to do was boot to safe mode and it would start up.
> My current setup is 3 HDs, 20G, 160G (my old boot drive) and 320G, all
> EIDE drives. I have disconnected everything except the 20G, which is
> were
> I want to install XP but it still hangs. The strange thing is once it did
> want to install and it got past the point it locks up, but I didn't have
> any free partition to install it on, I reset my computer and moved the
> files off the partition on the 20G and rebooted, thats when the problems
> started.
>
> The reason I had to reinstall XP was because my power supply was dieing
> and
> it corrupted my 160G. The drive is still good, just need to repartition
> and reformat and it works like new.
>
> Windows 2000 installs without a problem with the same hardware and
> everything runs but 2000 has been acting strange lately. If I have to I
> will reinstall 2000, but I want XP since a couple programs I have don't
> run
> under Windows 2000.
> The only thing I didn't try is upgrading my current installation to XP,
> I
> really don't want to try that, unless I have too.
>
> Any help would be nice.
>
>

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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> Usually a hw problem
> Youve used the hd manu. checking utility?
> Youve tested the memory www.memtest.org ?
>
My HDs are ok, since I had the crash, I checked out all my HDs. I
checked the memory also, it checked out ok. I just wish I knew which piece
of Hardware was the problem, it a little hard since it wants to install
sometimes, just not very often.


>
> "Dave" <leaper@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:OzXwnWZHIHA.4272@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > When I try to install my Windows XP disk, it starts the setup and hangs
> > after it prints 'Windows Setup' and two underlines. I had XP installed
> > to
> > this computer but it didn't like my 160Gig hard drive that much, it
would
> > give me a error saying it couldn't mount the HD if I didn't shut it down
> > correctly, all I had to do was boot to safe mode and it would start up.
> > My current setup is 3 HDs, 20G, 160G (my old boot drive) and 320G,
all
> > EIDE drives. I have disconnected everything except the 20G, which is
> > were
> > I want to install XP but it still hangs. The strange thing is once it
did
> > want to install and it got past the point it locks up, but I didn't
have
> > any free partition to install it on, I reset my computer and moved the
> > files off the partition on the 20G and rebooted, thats when the
problems
> > started.
> >
> > The reason I had to reinstall XP was because my power supply was dieing
> > and
> > it corrupted my 160G. The drive is still good, just need to
repartition
> > and reformat and it works like new.
> >
> > Windows 2000 installs without a problem with the same hardware and
> > everything runs but 2000 has been acting strange lately. If I have to
I
> > will reinstall 2000, but I want XP since a couple programs I have don't
> > run
> > under Windows 2000.
> > The only thing I didn't try is upgrading my current installation to XP,
> > I
> > really don't want to try that, unless I have too.
> >
> > Any help would be nice.
> >
> >
>
>