Re: XP Installation Error on New Hard Drive

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You dont have a winxp installation CD you have a recovery cd supplied by
your PC supplier, it appears that it is locked to, if not the origonal HD,
then to the size of the origonal HD.
You could try Option1, 2 then 3
If it works you will be left with C drive of 30gb, then in win Disk
Management you should see some free space which you can then partition

I dont kow if this would work

"Thor G." <ThorG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks folks. No joy though. I've been able to boot from CD from the get
go.
I've got one HDD (100GB Maxtor) installed and one each CD-R and DVD-R
installed.

My OEM CD menu offers 4 choices;
1. To Partition drive C: with FDISK.EXE
2. To format drive C: with FORMAT.COM
3. To install Windows XP with Default Settings
4. To exit

FDISK shows an approx. 30GB Disk as opposed to the 100GB it shows as in
the
MaxBlast 4.0 prep software.

I've borrowed a genuine XP Pro CD and it behaves normally, I just don't
complete the install because it's not my license, however when I select 3.
"Install Windows XP.....", I immediately receive the "An internal Setup
error
has occurred. Could not find a place for a swap file. Setup cannot
continue.
Press ENTER to exit."

Is there something in the PC internal cache or BIOS that is linked to the
original XP Home installation that is preventing a normal install?

I gotta admit that I'm really stumped with this one.

"Thor G." wrote:

I had two drives in my PC. I reformatted my data drive (the bigger one)
using
Maxtor MaxBlast 4 setting it up as a new NTFS boot drive. I then copied
all
the files from my boot drive to the newly formatted drive, again using
MaxBlast 4. Now the machine won't boot.

I removed my old boot drive and went about trying to do a fresh XP
install
on the newly formatted drive. When I attempt to do this, I get a message
that
there has been an "...internal error" to the effect that there is no
place to
locate the swap file.

I also get this on a brand new 100G drive I just happed to have. Seems
there
is no way to do a complete new clean install.



.

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