Windows XP - Solving the Installation / Setup Looping

To whom this may concern:

I was having a very hard time yesterday installing Windows XP on my
seagate hard drive. Here were my symptoms:

- Insert Windows XP CD and let it automatically boot at start-up
- Agreed to terms, setup my partition, and let it format
- The files copied to my hard drive
- When it was time to boot again, the CD would boot straight into setup
again (without prompting you to press any key continue . . . . )

So I searched, and searched and couldn't find my answer. So I found out
something very important. !!Find out what mode your hard drive is being
detected as!! My hard drive was an LBA hard drive, but it was detecting
it as a CHS hard drive.

So I told my BIOS instead of auto-detecting, I manually set it to LBA,
and it worked!

I hoped this helped someone. Thanks!

- E.T.