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by kmosli

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Hi all,

I replaced the hard drive with a new one. I am trying to install Win XP on it. When I boot from the CD it does ask me to press any key, then it does tell me that it is detecting the configurations and setup, but then it does not go further than this point...only a blank screen !! ?

Any ideas?

I appreciate your concerns !!

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by robo_dev

Have you reset the PC Bios to factory defaults?

What type of PC/drive?

What drive capacity, and how old is the PC? Some PCs need bios updates to support drives over 128GB.

Many HDD ship with a diags/install CD that will let you do diags on the config to make sure that the hardware is working.

by nepenthe0

1) The setup phase of installation can take several minutes. Is it possible that you became impatient and didn't wait long enough for setup to complete?

2) Depending upon your installation CD, it may lack essential drivers for the newer SATA hard drives. If so, installation will fail. There have been a number of posts recently regarding missing SATA drivers, so I'll give you links to these posts for your review:

http://tinyurl.com/4zgrvc
http://tinyurl.com/3wz2lx

Please post back in this thread for further assistance.

Rick/Portland, OR

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