Problem installing XP Pro

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Hi everyone,

I recently bought a system off a friend which came pre-installed with an unlicesened copy of XP Pro. Therefore I have bought a licensed copy.

However, upon attempting to install the licensed OS from within Windows, I am asked to do a full instalation as there is no upgrade option. Setup goes through the motions while in Windows, then restarts the computer and enters DOS. Then all that appears is a blue screen with 'Windows Setup' in the corner, and then the system hangs :confused:

Is it that i will need to do a clean install? Though I have problems booting into DOS. There is no floppy drive installed and for some reason the BIOS doesn't recognise my CD-ROM (it does work fine). Can I boot from a USB pen? Where are the necessary setup files?

Many thanks. :cool:
 
does it hang on a blue screen with loads of technical info?

if so, my money is on a SATA drive that doesnt have a native windows driver. we get that with some new dell optiplex's so we have to load the driver by hitting F6 to load a RAID driver at setup.
 
The blue screen that hangs simply has 'Windows Update' in the corner and nothing else...

I'm pretty certain the CD shows up in the list of drivers, but it is a SATA one so maybe that it doesn't have the native windows driver...how do I load the RAID driver?
 
I had similar problems... CD wasn't being booting in BIOS even though it was selected - I had to go back to an older BIOS version and I also have no floppy on the PC and needed to load SATA / RAID drivers during Windows set-up.

The strange thing is that during the initial Windows XP set-up boot it does recognise USB devices (in my case a FDD) but as soon as the text part text part appears it doesn't!! You can mess around trying to get it to work but I decided on nLite - you can make your own Windows XP install disk with your SATA / RAID drivers etc.
 
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