I am attempting to load XP onto a brand new system with a blank hard drive.
After first dealing with the "NTLDR is missing problem", I now have
installation going, but it seems to be stuck (although the notes describing
all the enhancements keeps looping). At first it got stuck at the "Setup
will complete in approximately: 22 minutes". After rebooting, installation
resumed and seems to now be stuck in the same situation, only now it is stuck
at the 39 minute mark.

Anyone have a solution or suggestion for this?



Thanks,

ultraindy

I don't have an answer, but had a similar problem installing XP Pro
Evaluation edition. It took 4 hours to install. Fortunately, it was an
unattended install. The messages apparently looped, but the install kept
chugging, however slowly.

I don't think this install is making any progress. It still seems stuck at
the point where I was at when I originally posted this several hours ago.
For the time being, I am just leaving it be, seeing if it will work itself
out, until someone else comes up with a suggestion or answer.

Thanks for your input.



"paulibus" wrote:

>
>
> I don't have an answer, but had a similar problem installing XP Pro
> Evaluation edition. It took 4 hours to install. Fortunately, it was an
> unattended install. The messages apparently looped, but the install kept
> chugging, however slowly.

=?Utf-8?B?dWx0cmFpbmR5?= <ultraindy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in news:3D22F96C-6623-49AE-888D-4783CE2AEBDE@microsoft.com:

> I don't think this install is making any progress. It still seems
> stuck at the point where I was at when I originally posted this
> several hours ago. For the time being, I am just leaving it be,
> seeing if it will work itself out, until someone else comes up
> with a suggestion or answer.

Did you check the HCL for all your hardware?

Is this an upgrade or clean install? If upgrade, try running "winnt32
/checkupgradeonly" and view the report.

Might be time to strip down the machine to bare essentials and trying
the installation again.

Adam