Re: XP Home installation never completes, repeats

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From: ByTor (ByTor_at_snowdog.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:59:40 -0500

In article <6fb5574e.0412280205.3b6efbc0@posting.google.com>,
kevin.dietrich@gmail.com, Kevin Dietrich says...
  
> This week, I purchased a new retail copy of Windows XP Home Upgrade
> for a family member's computer that had Windows 98. I started up the
> installation from Windows 98 and everything was looking good... until
> it got to about 20 minutes left. By that time, it's at the "Finishing
> installation" step. When it gets to this point (and I have seen it
> about twenty times now), it stops for about 15 minutes then restarts.
> When the system comes out of the restart, it goes back to the
> "Preparing installation" step with 52 minutes left. If I leave the
> system alone, it will do this over and over again.
>
> I have tried using a boot floppy (Win98) to delete the antivirus
> software that had previously been installed on there, as well as an
> old scanner driver. This only caused scandisk to run on the next
> restart. But nothing about the installation changes; it just goes back
> to the same starting point.
>
> Where do I go from here?
>

Back to the store, give them back the disk, and purchase the "full"
install CD............

Reason being? Do a clean install of an OS, upgrading is almost "always"
asking for trouble.

Also you state from Win98? Exactly how old is this machine & what type
of hardware does it have?

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