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Originally Posted by gottabekd
So what exactly have you done to get to this point? What is the state of the hard drive? Do you have a working Windows XP install on the system now? Or did you do anything to the hard drive before this step. If you already "formatted" the hard drive in some other way, that could be the problem. I've found certain hard drive states cause the Windows XP installer to lock up. If you have access to any sort of formatting/disk utility CD, put that in, and set up your partitions. Windows XP likes NTFS, so that should be the primary partition (and maybe only partition?). This could help : http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ |
I haven't done anything. I'm not computer-saavy.
I saw blue screen of death, figured that laptop has nothing important, pop-in Window XP CD to install... and it freezes.