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XP Install Porblems on Dell

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by chilli_willie

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Dell Dimensions series, had a virus and completely locked up. I upgraded to a new harddrive but XP wont load. Keeps telling me files are unavailable then if I retry it will continue but when it gets to installing components it just locks up. If I retry the install I get blue screen of death.

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by dmiles

The installation could be detecting the hardware change in system,which could be detecting the cd as a pirated copy,if this is not true then try this.

Boot computer,press the designated key to enter Bios configuration and set the CD-Rom as the first boot device,reboot and try installation from cd

by chilli_willie

I have already done that...and the copy of XP is good and clean have never had a problem with it. It isn't a pirated copy.

Any other ideas..it is something fishy with this system...

by mikejmoore

Even though you have a new hard drive, have you tried fdisk and making sure of no existing partitions and then creating a partition and formatting a section for your OS. I had a similar problem and that is how I was able to resolve.

by sgt_shultz

exactly what bsod error message are you getting. tell us more about this hd upgrade. what size, model hd did you install? did you run hd mfg diagnostics on this new drive. what about trying old hd and letting xp setup repartition and reformat it. did this sytem have xp on it previously. have you updated the bios to latest greatest. is it working pretty much then you install a, say, printer driver then you get bsod? can you give steps to reproduce (at what point exactly in the xp setup does it barf?)

by itgirli

You said it was answered, but how? I'm having the same problem on a stupid dell Optiplex. I personally think it's dell.

by itgirli

Okay, I got all confused with the new layout. I haven't been to this sight in forever. My issue usually throws me out during setup. It's Dell. It's a conspiracy. Throw it out the window.

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