michaelw

Ive tried and tried, this is now my 3rd day of trying to install windows xp on my computer. I recently got a new motherboard/chip/ddr ram, and as soon as i got it running i went and tried to install windows xp on my hard drive, so i could get a fresh start with a new computer/os.

I started up my pc, with the xp cd in and booted from it. However. XP just wont install on my computer! At first, it loads the startup files from cd very quickly, and gets started. Once it started checking the disk the problems start. First, it hangs at 0% for like 10 minutes, then it hangs at 100% for 10 minutes (no numbers in between, probably because the drive was just formatted), then after the status bar goes away it hangs for another 10 minutes with the text "checking drive c:" (but the statusbar has hit 100 and gone away). Then finally, it starts to copy the files from cd. It gest to 6% or so very quickly, but then it slows and reads a few files, stops for 5 mins, reads another few files, stops again. After 2 hours, it finishes copying the files. Then on the first restart, the windows xp logo shows up, with the statusbar. It hangs there for 30 minutes, then finally i get a grey screen, with nothing on. Then it waits there for 30 more minutes, and finally i get a blue screen with "Stop: Unkown hard error".

This is the THIRD day im trying to install xp. Ive tried on three different drives, and 3 different xp cds (2 are ap1 - they freeze when trying to install driver.cab, and tell meit cant read the file from cd - even though theyre two different sp1's downloaded from different sources). The regular xp does what i explained above. I tried it on a FAT32 drive, as well as 2 NTFS drives. ive even formatted/scandisked the drives for errors including a deep scan where it checks all the sectors.

Ive foundthat the installation is burning holes in my hard drives, as when it screws up and i format the drive, there are several more bad sectors then the time before.

I have no idea whats wrong.. I installed windows 98 flawlessly (within 8 minutes) and even when i tried running xp setup from windows 98, it does the same thing when copying the files over (except with a better gui).

This is driving me nuts - ive got extremely important data on 2 of the 3 drives and i cant afford to lose them. Ive got a dummy drive that i use to try and install xp on - even though ive also tried on the other 2 drives.

What in gods name could be wrong?
I have a new AMD XP 2800+ barton chip, an ASUS AGA777 or something (deluxe model, pretty new) mb, 512 mb ddr, 16x10x40 cdrw.


Heres one morebit of info that could help:
Before i installed my mb/chip, i had the msblast worm which i tried to remove under xp. it asked me to restart, but i clicked restart later. When i finally shutdown after getting ready to format/install xp again, instead of restarting i shutdown, installed the mb/chip, and restarted. when i got to windows, my mouse and keyboard did not work. after that hell began. my mouse and keyboard are fine however, since they worked on the 98 install.


pr0/darren/anyone else trying to contact me - im trying my hardest to get back up and running. this is the 3rd day - THIRD DAY for trying to install fucking windows xp, and my computer has rarely been off, always trying another way to load it up.

fuck what a pain in the ass

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