Hello i am new to these boards and was looking around for the answer to why my XP cds are always freezing during the install at the "preparing installation phase"
I had to re format my computer due to the fact my USB got corrputed and no matter what I had to fix that problem it wouldn't fix so last resort was to re format. Well I had a win xp pro SP2 FULL install CD and when trying to re install Win XP with that CD it would get to the part to agree to the User Agreement and lock up. So I went ahead and used my Win98SE CD and it installed fine on my computer and have not yet installed any other drivers or updates for the win98SE OS yet so just went straight to using my WinXP Home SP2 UPDATE install CD and it locks up everytime at the "preparing install" when the computer reboots after copying the files.
So I have looked and looked for numerous solutions to this problem and the only one I had found was the removing the anti virus solution but I have no other programs installed on my PC yet and no updates.
So I had also read to make sure my CDs are good, well I went ahead and tried to see about copying all my files off the CD to a folder on the computer and run setup that way. The files copied to a folder just fine with no read errors but samething happened when running the install. I thought I would post this to see what other people had come up with and see if they found a solution to this. I will try to update my Win98SE OS to see if that helps and let you know what happens then. But for now would like to see what other people have had problems like this similar to mine?
Thanks
Bugbum
Specs:
AMD XP 2100
512 DDR ram
Seagate 100GB HDD
ATI 9500 Gaphics Card
Creative Sound Blaster Auidgy LS
I had to re format my computer due to the fact my USB got corrputed and no matter what I had to fix that problem it wouldn't fix so last resort was to re format. Well I had a win xp pro SP2 FULL install CD and when trying to re install Win XP with that CD it would get to the part to agree to the User Agreement and lock up. So I went ahead and used my Win98SE CD and it installed fine on my computer and have not yet installed any other drivers or updates for the win98SE OS yet so just went straight to using my WinXP Home SP2 UPDATE install CD and it locks up everytime at the "preparing install" when the computer reboots after copying the files.
So I have looked and looked for numerous solutions to this problem and the only one I had found was the removing the anti virus solution but I have no other programs installed on my PC yet and no updates.
So I had also read to make sure my CDs are good, well I went ahead and tried to see about copying all my files off the CD to a folder on the computer and run setup that way. The files copied to a folder just fine with no read errors but samething happened when running the install. I thought I would post this to see what other people had come up with and see if they found a solution to this. I will try to update my Win98SE OS to see if that helps and let you know what happens then. But for now would like to see what other people have had problems like this similar to mine?
Thanks
Bugbum
Specs:
AMD XP 2100
512 DDR ram
Seagate 100GB HDD
ATI 9500 Gaphics Card
Creative Sound Blaster Auidgy LS
