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Eric Jenner - 30 Jan 2004 01:26 GMT

I recently decided to upgrade to Windows XPHome edition on my HP
desktop. I installed a new hard drive and placed the Windows XP
installation CD (a full install cd not an upgrade cd) in the CDROM
drive.

The computer booted from the CDROM, the hard drive was formatted and
all files were correctly transferred to the hard drive. Windows XP
gave no error messages and said "This part of the installation was
successful, now restart to finish initialization." However when I
restart with the CD still in the CDROM drive, it starts the
installation process again, as if I had never started the install.
Endless loop, no way to finish.

After reading similar messages on this newsgroup I tried removing the
CD before re-booting as one person suggested. However then I get a
message "Disk Boot Failure".

And yet if I boot with the Windows XP CD in the CDROM drive, the
Windows installer loads and finds the hard drive and can read all the
files on it without any trouble. (Using the Repair option.) But I
can't seem to set the hard drive to my current drive to finish the
installation.

If anyone is familiar with this situation I would appreciate hearing
suggestions.

-Eric

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Haus - 30 Jan 2004 03:02 GMT

Hello
when starting to do your install you boot from the CD and do your formating
and partitioning that you want then during the install the computer will
restart at that point you DO NOT Press any key to Boot from CD and it will
start and finish the install

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Hope this helps
Haus

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Eric Jenner - 30 Jan 2004 21:04 GMT

Hi Haus,
The sequence you describe is the way I understand it is supposed to
work. What I am saying is that even when I do not press any key, the
computer automatically restarts after it does about a 20 second
countdown, but it does not finish the installation. It starts again
from square one as if it had not done the first part of the
installation.
-Eric

>"Haus" wrote
> when starting to do your install you boot from the CD and do your formating
> and partitioning that you want then during the install the computer will
> restart at that point you DO NOT Press any key to Boot from CD and it will
> start and finish the install

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Brian - 31 Jan 2004 00:31 GMT

Have you checked in your bios to see if what your boot sequences is? have
you disabled booting from hard drive by accident?

> I recently decided to upgrade to Windows XPHome edition on my HP
> desktop. I installed a new hard drive and placed the Windows XP
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>
> -Eric

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