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Originally posted by michaelw
well i installed 98 on my fat32 hard drive again, tried copying and pasting hundreds of large files in the os, and i was able to copy everything to another folder flawlessly and fast. the drive doesnt appear to be the problem?
then i copied over my entire xp cd to my hard drive, and started setup.exe. It did the work involved from 64 min remaining to 54 min remaining in one minute. Looks good so far. Then it restarts to actually install it. and it does THE SAME FUCKING THING AGAIN! All the files are already on my hd (since i copied em over from the cd). But now once its restarted xp decides to use its own satan drivers or something on my hard drive, and now i can hear my hd working (for 1/10th of a second) every 10-15 seconds. The progress bar id expect will reach 100 in 3 hours. when its done, i bet ill get another blue screen.
what the fuck?! anyone with any idea at all what im doing wrong here? it says "press f6 to install a 3rd party scsi or raid driver" - i dont think my drive is either of those 2, and i cant find any drivers anyway.
and - now as i check its progress - it says that "xp couldnt create a backup image", "xp could not find the files on the cd, please copy files from cd to hd and restart setup". THE FILES ARE ON THE HARD DRIVE ALREADY - im running setup from my harddrive
does it think my drive is a cdrom or something? wtf
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I have had similiar problems helping other people install XP as well as installing it locally.
Solution: Install Windows 2000, manually install the network driver or modem and download all the updates. All your devices should work if you keep Windows 2000. I would recommend this.
Use XP from here at your own risk!