Can Anyone Help Trying To Install Windows XP?

Question

I have a computer that has had XP on it before, but the hard drive got so full that i couldn't run anything on it so i reformatted it and tried to reinstall XP and now it won't take it. Its been through everything in the setup and restarted but it doesn't go any further than that. Once it restarts it gives you the choices to run setup, run recovery, or exit. If you go to setup it reinstalls, restarts and i'm right back to the beginning. If i run recovery it goes do dos and i haven't the first clue what to do there. If I go to exit setup it tells me windows hasn't been entirely installed. The disk i'm using has been used multiple times so i know its still good. If i take it out it won't run at all. Please Help.

i have taken the disk out and put it back in when it says to, but it does the same thing.

yes i am trying off the xp disk

Answer 1

Try this site, maybe there is some information that can help you. If not put the disk in let it do its thing, take a break, leave your computer and see what happens. My computer crashed I had to start over. I tried and finally after hours of quite a few heavy choice words, I grabbed a coffee and came back and my computer or disk kicked in and I was on the way back to recovery. I think if you just put the disk in and let it do its thing it will eventually do it. The computer has to restart its brain. Or start from Dos.

Answer 2

When setup is finished, are you still booting from the Windows XP installation CD? When you perform a clean install of Windows XP from the installation CD, you may need to remember to change the BIOS boot sequence to look to the hard disk drive rather than the CD-ROM drive.

I hope that this is what's happening in your case, because it would be nice if the problem were that simple.

Answer 3

change the boot order to 1 hard drive 2 rom. go

Answer 4

Perhaps you should eject the disc on reboot and put it in when it asks for it.