XP Pro SP2 install failure on New Hard Drive.

I have a brand new 4 Gig Western Digital Hard disk
that is installed in my stand alone Pentium III 900Mhz

XP Pro SP2 formats the Hard disk, and begins installing.
It fails or freezes when it gets all the way down to
"Finalizing Installation, Saving Configuration".
It goes to a completely BLANK screen & just sits there.
When I reboot, it restarts the installation and fails at the
same point, 3 times now.

Please help.
I was told that XP was the best windows ever,
and that Pro was better than Home version.
I am installing on a clean new Hard drive, and still
I have problems?????
Will it EVER get Easy for us novices?
Man oh Man THIS IS FRUSTRATING!
Sory, Just had to get that off my chest.

"Conrad" <conrad@email.com> wrote in message
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> I have a brand new 4 Gig Western Digital Hard disk
> that is installed in my stand alone Pentium III 900Mhz
>
> XP Pro SP2 formats the Hard disk, and begins installing.
> It fails or freezes when it gets all the way down to
> "Finalizing Installation, Saving Configuration".
> It goes to a completely BLANK screen & just sits there.
> When I reboot, it restarts the installation and fails at the
> same point, 3 times now.
>
> Please help.
> I was told that XP was the best windows ever,
> and that Pro was better than Home version.
> I am installing on a clean new Hard drive, and still
> I have problems?????
> Will it EVER get Easy for us novices?
> Man oh Man THIS IS FRUSTRATING!
> Sory, Just had to get that off my chest.
>

I didn't know that you can still buy brand new 4 GByte
hard disks. WinXP may simply be running out of space
on your disk - 4 GBytes sounds very tight. Get a
larger disk!

WinXP Home is not better or worse than WinXP
Professional - it simply lacks a few features that are
included with WinXP Professional.

The sys requirements as per
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sysreqs.mspx
and or
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...n/sysreqs.mspx
indicate that well less than 2 gig is required.
Besides, shouldn't XP be able to determine whether
there is enough space or not, PRIOR to installation?!
Don't previous versions allready do this?!!


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Conrad" <conrad@email.com> wrote in message
> news:OZCBvKBDGHA.1268@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I have a brand new 4 Gig Western Digital Hard disk
> > that is installed in my stand alone Pentium III 900Mhz
> >
> > XP Pro SP2 formats the Hard disk, and begins installing.
> > It fails or freezes when it gets all the way down to
> > "Finalizing Installation, Saving Configuration".
> > It goes to a completely BLANK screen & just sits there.
> > When I reboot, it restarts the installation and fails at the
> > same point, 3 times now.
> >
> > Please help.
> > I was told that XP was the best windows ever,
> > and that Pro was better than Home version.
> > I am installing on a clean new Hard drive, and still
> > I have problems?????
> > Will it EVER get Easy for us novices?
> > Man oh Man THIS IS FRUSTRATING!
> > Sory, Just had to get that off my chest.
> >
>
> I didn't know that you can still buy brand new 4 GByte
> hard disks. WinXP may simply be running out of space
> on your disk - 4 GBytes sounds very tight. Get a
> larger disk!
>
> WinXP Home is not better or worse than WinXP
> Professional - it simply lacks a few features that are
> included with WinXP Professional.
>
>

The requirements you quote may refer to a bare-bones
installation. I have never seen one that survived on such
a small disk. Rather than labouring the point I would
immediately try it on a larger disk. They cost so little
these days!


"Conrad" <conrad@email.com> wrote in message
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> The sys requirements as per
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sysreqs.mspx
> and or
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...n/sysreqs.mspx
> indicate that well less than 2 gig is required.
> Besides, shouldn't XP be able to determine whether
> there is enough space or not, PRIOR to installation?!
> Don't previous versions allready do this?!!
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:Oe5WNoBDGHA.528@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Conrad" <conrad@email.com> wrote in message
> > news:OZCBvKBDGHA.1268@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > I have a brand new 4 Gig Western Digital Hard disk
> > > that is installed in my stand alone Pentium III 900Mhz
> > >
> > > XP Pro SP2 formats the Hard disk, and begins installing.
> > > It fails or freezes when it gets all the way down to
> > > "Finalizing Installation, Saving Configuration".
> > > It goes to a completely BLANK screen & just sits there.
> > > When I reboot, it restarts the installation and fails at the
> > > same point, 3 times now.
> > >
> > > Please help.
> > > I was told that XP was the best windows ever,
> > > and that Pro was better than Home version.
> > > I am installing on a clean new Hard drive, and still
> > > I have problems?????
> > > Will it EVER get Easy for us novices?
> > > Man oh Man THIS IS FRUSTRATING!
> > > Sory, Just had to get that off my chest.
> > >
> >
> > I didn't know that you can still buy brand new 4 GByte
> > hard disks. WinXP may simply be running out of space
> > on your disk - 4 GBytes sounds very tight. Get a
> > larger disk!
> >
> > WinXP Home is not better or worse than WinXP
> > Professional - it simply lacks a few features that are
> > included with WinXP Professional.
> >
> >
>
>

Even if xp installs a 4gb disk will be of no practically use, assuming you
wish to install Apps

"Conrad" <conrad@email.com> wrote in message
news:u9wCZPCDGHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> The sys requirements as per
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sysreqs.mspx
> and or
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...n/sysreqs.mspx
> indicate that well less than 2 gig is required.
> Besides, shouldn't XP be able to determine whether
> there is enough space or not, PRIOR to installation?!
> Don't previous versions allready do this?!!
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:Oe5WNoBDGHA.528@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Conrad" <conrad@email.com> wrote in message
> > news:OZCBvKBDGHA.1268@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > I have a brand new 4 Gig Western Digital Hard disk
> > > that is installed in my stand alone Pentium III 900Mhz
> > >
> > > XP Pro SP2 formats the Hard disk, and begins installing.
> > > It fails or freezes when it gets all the way down to
> > > "Finalizing Installation, Saving Configuration".
> > > It goes to a completely BLANK screen & just sits there.
> > > When I reboot, it restarts the installation and fails at the
> > > same point, 3 times now.
> > >
> > > Please help.
> > > I was told that XP was the best windows ever,
> > > and that Pro was better than Home version.
> > > I am installing on a clean new Hard drive, and still
> > > I have problems?????
> > > Will it EVER get Easy for us novices?
> > > Man oh Man THIS IS FRUSTRATING!
> > > Sory, Just had to get that off my chest.
> > >
> >
> > I didn't know that you can still buy brand new 4 GByte
> > hard disks. WinXP may simply be running out of space
> > on your disk - 4 GBytes sounds very tight. Get a
> > larger disk!
> >
> > WinXP Home is not better or worse than WinXP
> > Professional - it simply lacks a few features that are
> > included with WinXP Professional.
> >
> >
>
>