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by derek_furlong

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i am in the process of reinstalling xp home, at the "installing devices" page 3 of the 5 bubbles are complete but the process freezes at the fourth. it says there is 34 minutes remaining but its been a couple of hours. is there a step i missed or what, any help would be...helpful. thanks

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by nepenthe0

There may be residual code on the primary partition that halts XP reinstallation. I recommend formatting the primary partition, then reinstall the OS. Check the computer maker's e-support for the latest XP-compatible BIOS, and upgrade the BIOS if its available.

Hope this helps.

Rick/Portland, OR

by harshit

may be your cd is corrupt. You can check with some other cd.

by strikeer

I have seen XP installations take up to 2 hours or so. And I've seen it look like it was stuck at a minute mark forever. And well, nothing was wrong at all. Not sure how long your installation ran.

Try it again, and like suggested, a clean drive is much better.

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