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by illmatic547

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Ok her is the deal.
I installed a new version of xp I got and i got a blue error screen after I installed it. (never went to windows or log on screen)
I tryed installing it (a different version of xp home edition) still dont work. I tryed to put the cd in so it can boot up the installation, but it wont work. Is there anything i can do to install windows. And another thing when i installed the windows xp i hade it wouldnt show up on the screen when the pc boots up. I only have 2 choices.
1. Windows XP Professional
2. Windows Xp Hom Edition

Tryed both wont work. The pro didnt switch to home and the home (second choiced) was from a diff hard drive which i no longer have. If anyone can help please reply thanks.

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by bfilmfan

First, what error was on the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? Knowing what error was reported in installation would help in locating the issue.

Was there an OS already installed on this hard disk?

Was this an upgrade of that OS?

My recommendation is known as "Nuke and Pave." To Nuke and Pave, you will need to perform the following:

Have a bootable DOS disk with FDISK and Format. You can get a boot disk at http://www.bootdisk.com.

Then you should run a FDISK C: /MBR

Then run a FORMAT C:

Power the system down when it is completed.

Then put your Windows XP Pro CD in the system.

Proceed with the installation.

Note that you will most likely want a system with access to the Internet available to you in the event that you require XP drivers for peripherals installed in your system, in the event that you do not have the original installation media.

by darrynmarr1979

If your getting a blue screen of death, it could mean your ram has gone potty i.e dying, as ive had the same prob before myself, if its not the ram, try searching for bad sectors on your hard drive, could be windows setup is copying the install files over a bad sector of your hard disk(unlikely but possible)

by whitejediguy

You might want to check and be sure that the hard drive is set to master (the little pin things, refer to the hard drive's manual for details if needed) and make sure as well that the hard drive is formatted into the NTFS format not FAT32. On my system I had used a cd and it formatted my hard drive to the Operating System I had selected. For help on a Seagate hard drive visit their site at http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/install.html Western Digital at http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999 For a download of the "DiskWizard" I used (seem to work on a western digital as well) the link is http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html . Hope this helped.

by markb-ohio

The second part of your problem with the 2OS choices menu. Do the following...
Start , Run, MSCONFIG, go to the BOOT.INI tab at the top, then click on the CHECK ALL BOOT PATHS button. It should come up and tell you that one of them is invalid and then remove it.

by markb-ohio

The second part of your problem with the 2OS choices menu. Do the following...
Start , Run, MSCONFIG, go to the BOOT.INI tab at the top, then click on the CHECK ALL BOOT PATHS button. It should come up and tell you that one of them is invalid and then remove it.

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