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Having Trouble Installing Windows

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by doncabezahueca

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I first started installing Windows XP Home on a P4 system and It will copy the install files to the hard drive then restart. After that the system will boot back to the cd-rom. When I cancel the boot to cd-rom I get an invalid system disk error. This has happen to different hard drive before it so I figure that its not exactly the hard drive. and I'm looking for any suggestions on how I can further trouble shoot to figure out why I can't get into the actual installation of windows. I checked the hard drive with the recovery console and I saw that there is a windows directory after the restart. I'm just too tired to try to figure this out right now. So please any suggestions on what i can do...

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by bally199

Ok then, if you have a spare hdd try that. Also, have you tried cleaning the cd or disconect the floppy drive as that worked for me!

by fred123456

Ok well this is my suggestion.

I'm guessing the hard drive is probably configured as a FAT32 partition, because during the installation process, if you choose to do so the drive is then converted to NTFS. Its been a while since I installed a "Home" version of XP.
If your FAT32 partition is not set as the "active" partition then you will probaby get that error.

So pull out FDISK and confirm your partition is set to Active.

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