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Simon J Dampier

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Jun 19, 2001, 2:58:26 AM6/19/01
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O.K, so I was excited about getting my eval copy of XP, however, when I've
come to install it, it doesn't work!!

I've tried a fresh install, and install over a brand new install of Win98se
but both fail when installing files from CD. It gets stuck at EXACTLY the
same place every time (loading driver.cab) from the CD. I'm installing onto
a partition on the primary disk (and have tried NTFS and FAT installs). The
disk is partitioned 50/50 (thus about 8GB free for XP!).

Oh, its beta 2 professional by the way, and I'm located in the UK (if that
makes a difference at all)

Anybody else have similar problems??????

Hardware as follows:

AMD Duron 800Mhz
256MB PC133 SDRAM
Gigabyte 7ZXR mobo (VIA) (with onboard audio)
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (16MB AGP)
17GB Maxtor drive (ATA66) on primary ide (master)
10GB Maxtor drive (ATA66) on primary ide (slave)
Creative 48x CDROM on secondary slave (master)
Kingston 10/100 PCI Ethernet


Honjo

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Jun 19, 2001, 9:46:33 AM6/19/01
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It is an evil copy of XP to me that surely drives me crazy. The utility to
check hardware compatibility which comes with the CDROM says there is no
compatibility issue with my PC system, yet XP fails to install. I tried
wnnt.exe, or booting from the CDROM.. I tried installing from within W98. I
tried a downloaded copy of XP. I tried different CD drive. All these
installation attempts always ended up with STOP error 0x0000007B.

Kaz Honjo

Mark Strelecki, ACP

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Jun 19, 2001, 10:08:28 AM6/19/01
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Hi, Honjo -

Try this, to help the install process:

I do clean installs, so I boot with a Win98SE floppy diskette and copy the
I386 folder from the CD to the hard drive. I make certain I load SmartDrive
disk cache, otherwise the install will take MUCH LONGER.

I make it a point to disconnect all external devices EXCEPT the LPT printer
(disconnect all external USB, modem lines, network lines, UPS, Zip,
Firewire, etc.) before beginning the install, and only reconnecting same
AFTER setup has completed and I've gone through about three reboots.

The setup for an OS (WINNT.EXE in this case, or WINNT32.EXE) is a very
demanding process, and there are TOO MANY things that can go wrong, so I
recommend SIMPLIFICATION BEFORE INSTALLATION.

It's worked for me that way in DOZENS of installs of W2K and WXP Pro.

I have a text available at www.strelecki.com/cleaninstall.txt that may help
(it's for Win98SE, but can be modified for W2K or XP). Give it a shot, and
best of luck to you.

;^ )


--

Mark Strelecki, ACP BE6.2195SP1.010331
Computing and Programming Since 1975 http://www.strelecki.com
Protect Your Rights -- Fight UCITA http://www.4cite.org


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TSG

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Jun 19, 2001, 1:42:25 PM6/19/01
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Came out fine on my end.

TSG

"Bob Adkins" <bo...@charter.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:25:42 -0400, VFreder...@Rochester.rr.com wrote:
>
>
> Are you trying to communicate?
>
>
>
>
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> Look at the size of that file you are talking about.&nbsp; It is huge
> compared
> <to the others.&nbsp; Hoe long did you wait for it.&nbsp; Try
waiting&nbsp;
> >longer.&nbsp; If you do a setup from dos then you have to load smartdrv
> >or you will be there waiting for it all night.
> <p>Be Patient
> p>Just b/c MS gave you a new op sys does not mean that it installs any
> >faster.......lol
> br>&nbsp;
> ><r>&nbsp;
> br>&nbsp;
> >p>Simon J Dampier wrote:
> ><blockquote TYPE=CITE>O.K, so I was excited about getting my eval copy


> of XP, however, when I've

> >br>come to install it, it doesn't work!!
> p>I've tried a fresh install, and install over a brand new install of
> >Win98se
> <br>but both fail when installing files from CD.&nbsp; It gets stuck at
> >EXACTLY the
> >br>same place every time (loading driver.cab) from the CD.&nbsp; I'm
installing
> >onto
> >br>a partition on the primary disk (and have tried NTFS and FAT
installs).&nbsp;
> >The
> >br>disk is partitioned 50/50 (thus about 8GB free for XP!).
> ><p>Oh, its beta 2 professional by the way, and I'm located in the UK (if
> >that
> >br>makes a difference at all)
> >p>Anybody else have similar problems??????
> >p>Hardware as follows:
> >p>AMD Duron 800Mhz
> >br>256MB PC133 SDRAM
> >br>Gigabyte 7ZXR mobo (VIA) (with onboard audio)
> >br>ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (16MB AGP)
> >br>17GB Maxtor drive (ATA66) on primary ide (master)
> >br>10GB Maxtor drive (ATA66) on primary ide (slave)
> >br>Creative 48x CDROM on secondary slave (master)
> >br>Kingston 10/100 PCI Ethernet</blockquote>
> >/html>
>
>
> "From the Heart of Cajun Country".
>
> Bob


Honjo

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Jun 20, 2001, 2:09:18 PM6/20/01
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Hi, Mark:

I tried your suggestion but it did not work or "STOP 0x0000007B" was displayed.
I did not necessarily follow to the letters in your suggested method, but
your suggestion in essence as I understand is as follows:

1. Create a primary partition and format it in FAT32
2. Copy i386 from WinXP B2 CDROM to the above partition
3. Set the partition active and boot from W98SE boot FD.
4. Copy files from the W98SE boot FD to C:
5. Boot from C:
6. Execute I386/WINNT.EXE

In the step 5. above, booting from C: failed: "NTLDR is missing " was
displayed. So that I booted from W98SE boot FD again and executed sys c: Then
booting from C: succeeded.

Only external devices connected to the PC were a keyboard, a mouce, a monitor,
and a LPT printer. I even removed one of the three physical hard drives since
it is in a removable frame thus easy to remove.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Kaz Honjo/Atlanta

Shalin Zaveri

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Jun 25, 2001, 9:35:26 PM6/25/01
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Dou you have a SCSI controller or an ATA controller on this system?

Shalin

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Steven Rosenberg

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Jun 26, 2001, 1:17:50 PM6/26/01
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I had the same problem. When first starting install and the screen says
"press f6 for other mass storage devices" or something like that, hold down
the f7 key. that usually works. Setup sometimes gets stuck on detecting
certain devices. This usually helps. If not go to your bios settings and set
them to a fail safe or default setting. Once XP is installed you can tweak
your bios as you like.
Steve~
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Ed Calliott

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Jun 28, 2001, 9:14:56 PM6/28/01
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Problem may be the cd drive itself. I recently replaced a kenwood with a
slick Asus, and had exactly the problem you describe. Fix was to load it off
by HP burner at 32X.


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MC

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Oct 12, 2001, 3:50:14 AM10/12/01
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Hi

I had the same problem with an ASUS motherboard as well. Installing was
nightmarish failing to find an OS installation file that was obviously on
the CD. Had to buy a new CDR which fixed the problem.

MC


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