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XP installation problems....non standard

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by machinehead4eva

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Hi all, question. I recently started to rebuild my Dell dimension 5150. Unfortunately my InternalDVD-rom is faulty....so I started the installation from a USB-CD-rom Externally. Installtion proceeded fine.....however 40mins later I find a new partition of XP....with all my old "Program files" still there on the HDD.

No problems i thought....I'll boot from the XP CD again and this time....Delete the partition and create a new one. However I cant do this as I get a message about setup files....blah blah.

So....I get my fathers 98 boot CD....and run Fdisk to delete the C: partition...hoping that this would solve the problem. NO.......

Now when I boot from the USB External CD-rom drive....setup starts to proceed....and then Hangs up at "windows setup".....after a while (2mins) the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH appears....

Stuck...stuck....stuck

Please anyone had this before????

LG

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by absolutely

It sounds like you might have free space, rather than a primary partition, followed by a logical partition. I vaguely recall that the WinXP install disc has problems with that. Try defining a primary partition, or else destroying all partitions on the disc then using the WinXP partitioner to create the C:\ partition itself.

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