I have the windows xp installation disc, and It will run the setup. I then format in fat32. It adds the files, then comes to the point where it needs to restart. It restarts and comes up just like it did before installation. Basically it will not pick back up on installation. what am I doing wrong. can someone please explain the problem, or what I should do. Thanks!
2007-02-18 13:19:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
when it restarts do not boot from the cd let it boot from the hard drive...usually it says to press a key to boot from cd....dont do anything
2007-02-18 13:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by mzydorczyk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well first of all let the installation start
then it will give you a message or something like that
computer is about to restart
at that time
you remove the disc from the Drive
otherwise i will again start to setup from the beginning
and i think that is the problem with you
remove the disk as soon as it shuts down and
so when it gets a restart it will work and start with the installed files
2007-02-18 13:25:26 · answer #2 · answered by akshay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try taking the XP Installation disk out of the CD drive after the restart. It should then boot to the hard drive and continue the installation from there.
2007-02-18 13:24:25 · answer #3 · answered by hllywood72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DO NOT hit a key after the intial re-boot. Just let it go. I did that forever with Win2000 before I just forgot and it worked! If you "press any key to boot from CD" after you run the format you will just restart the instll.
And FAT32 is a crap idea. NTFS is a much better file system.
2007-02-18 13:25:30 · answer #4 · answered by Chris B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 08:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is FAT 32. Win XP can only create a FAT 32 partition of up 32 GB. If you create and use a Win ME boot disk http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm you can partition and format a larger partition. If you used Win XP to format in NTFS instead of FAT 32 you won't experience this problem.
2007-02-18 13:30:41 · answer #6 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take out the disk.
2007-02-18 13:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by nerd00 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-18 13:27:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋