Problems installing Win XP Pro

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whitt212

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I am trying to do a clean install of Windows XP Professional. Everything seems to be going fine, and then the stupid thing hangs up during the installation. It gets down to where it says that there are 34 min left for installation and that is it. Can anyone tell me what the deal is? Is there some hardware, (ie. modem,etc) that may be causing it? I have gone through everything I know to do at this moment. Plz help!!!!! :confused:
 
I can't see how hardware is affecting it although I am not as educated on the subject as some users on here. What are you upgrading from or is this a new pc? Posting some specs may help also :good: I have some ideas but we need more information before we can help
 
Actually, I had to format my C: drive. I was running XP Pro when my puter crashed. Now I just can't seem to get the darn thing to install. Just really confused now as to why it is not installing.
 
Are you trying to install it to an existing partition, or are you allowing it to create a new NTFS partition?
 
Installing to an existing partition. It asks if I want to format the partition using NTFS and I answered yes.
 
As an FYI, I found the problem. It was a hardware problem.... the modem. I removed the modem and xp installed like it was supposed to. Now xp has set random passwords. I did find help on Microsoft for this. You have to use the recovery console. At the command prompt, type type setupact.log and press enter. This is where you are supposed to be able to find these random passwords. Hopefully this will help anyone who happens to be as unfortunate as I have been to experience this.

Later.
 
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