Installing Windows XP

When I start installing Windows XP the installation will not go pass the
screen where the loading bar appears at boot up. Can anyone help me. Must I
mentioned I get through the portion of install where the hard drive is
formatted and the OS files are copied to disk. But the system hangs and stop
responding.

DGunn wrote:

> When I start installing Windows XP the installation will not go pass the
> screen where the loading bar appears at boot up. Can anyone help me. Must I
> mentioned I get through the portion of install where the hard drive is
> formatted and the OS files are copied to disk. But the system hangs and stop
> responding.

Failures to install are normally do to hardware problems. Start with
testing the ram with these two programs. Let them run for several hours
each, not just one pass.

Memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Download a drive diagnostic utility from the drive manufacturer's web
site and run that.

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User