Hey Everybody,
I read through a few of the posts again, and I noticed that a couple of
people have said something about pressing a key. I have not been pressing any
keys. It boots from the CD automatically. The boot order has been changed to
Hard-Drive then CD-ROM, and it still does it automatically. When I take the
CD-ROM out of the order completely, it goes to VERifying DMS.... or something
like that and it never loads.

"Talahasee" wrote:

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> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:50:01 -0800, Jordan
> <Jordan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hey Everybody,
> >I've built a new computer, and I've got all of my hardware installed
> >correctly, and everything seems to be running fine, except for the fact that
> >I can't install an operating system. Whenever I partition the space to
> >install Windows, the disc copies all of the files into the right directories,
> >and then says that it needs to restart to continue setting up. So the
> >computer restarts, and then it goes RIGHT BACK to the screen asking me which
> >portions to partition. It shows the one that I did earlier, but I can't do
> >anything with it but delete it. THere is no recovery or anything.
>
> Get a copy of the Windows 98 boot disk.
>
> Use IT to fdisk and format.
>
> THEN pop your Windows XP CD into your CD Rom drive, answer the
> questions as they come up, install to C:\windows
>
> the problem you are having MAY be that when you see the prompt upon
> the reboot
>
> "press any key to boot from the CD Rom."
>
> You have been pressing the key.
>
> Don't!
>
> Once you have begun the install, you don't have to do ANYTHING until
> you begin answering questions during the final installation.
>
> That confused me as well, and I found myself re-installing and
> re-installing and reinstalling.
>
>
> Quite literally, once you have fdisked (partitioned) in Windows 98
> and you have formatted in Windows 98,
> and you have begun the install with your XP Pro disk, you don't have
> to mess with the computer again until you are being asked to respond
> to questions within Windows XP.
>
> I got confused with this myself early on, and found myself hitting a
> key every time I saw the "hit a key to boot from the CD..."
>
> That puts you in a loop.
>
> By the way, you should only have to format / partition from the
> Windows 98 disk one time to "get rid of the XP install crap."
>
> AFter you do this one successful install, you should be able to
> install from the XP CD in the future.
>
>
>
> good luck.
>
> Tallahassee
> >
> >-I have tried multiple variations of the boot orders
> >-I have left the entire thing unpartitioned when installing windows and it
> >still did the same error.
> >-I have tried mulitple variations of sizes when partitioning space
> >-I have entered into the bios, and changed my HD to Large
> >-I have checked to make sure the cables dealing with slave/master are correct
> >
> >Here is what happens when I try to run it without the CD after partitioning
> >the space: It doesn't boot, and it asks me to put the boot cd in the drive. I
> >have formatted using FAT and NTFC or whatever its called.
> >
> >I have an ABIT AN8 Motherboard with an AMD3700+ with 1 gig of ram.
> >
> >Can anybody help me?
>
>