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by smooth1971

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I am trying to do a clean install of XP pro and the screen tells me setup will be complete in 39 minutes. It has not been 2 hours. I can see that the hard drive is working. What should I do?

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by joseph moore

Are you sure your machine is XP compatible? From what I have heard, when the installs stick like this, that means that a piece of hardware is not XP compatible. You can look up the hardware in your system and check if it is XP compatible by going tothe Windows Catalog site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/catalog/
Click the Hardware tab, and start looking around. Maybe your hard drive is not XP compatible, or maybe the motherboard.

by smooth1971

Iy had XP installed before. I got an error message that windows\system32\config\system is missing or corupt. Since this was the second time I got this message I just decided to reformat the hard drive and start over. I will try that. Do you have any other suggestions? Thank you

by joseph moore

Well, here is the TEchnet article that talks about recovering from this error:
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Article is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545

But if this keeps happening, then I would suspect either some bad hardware (failing hard drive, perhaps?) or XP-incompatible hardware.

by shuja52

Whether u have skipped any files during copying process when asked? if yes, do chech the WIN XP PRO CD

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