Installation time for XP Pro

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Scotch

Evening all, would like to ask your opinion on how long XP
pro should take to install. It is now going on an hour
and the status bar has been on "4 min left" for about 30
min. It hung up like this on "7 min left," but not for
this long. I am installing to a brand new Western Digital
120 gig drive (partitioned in 2 equally). My system is a
Athelon 1.2 gigahertz with 768 megs of PC133 SDRAM. Do
not know if you all need this much information, but what
the heck.

Thanks,

Scotch
 
Is this an upgrade or a clean install?
It sound very much like a hardware compatibility problem. I recent had a
similar problem on an older machine with an ISA sound card and had to remove
it. Did you run the compatibility check first?
 
should not take that long. Takes me about 25 minutes total for a clean
install

jeanette harper
 
Thank you Bally Ally... here are the answers to your
questions. This is a clean install. I did not run a
compatability check before making the installation. My
sound card is a soundblaster and my video card is a
GeForce2 with 32 megs of ram. My computer is about 2
years old. Since I posted my first post, I have restarted
my computer and the installation proceeded, leading to
this message...

One of the componets that windows needs to continue setup
could not be installed

Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Error

G:\i386\sqloledts.dl was not copied to C:\program
files\common files\system\OleD\sqloledts.dll

Because of the following error:

Error performing inpage operation

If installing from a disk, make sure disk is clean.

WELL, I am installing from a disk and it is very clean. I
do not know where to go from here. Pehaps take the disk
back? Who knows. Maybe I'll just go back to ME...
nawww. I could go into my computer drawer and find my
very old copy of windows 98. Thanks for the help.
 
Scotch said:
Thank you Bally Ally... here are the answers to your
questions. This is a clean install. I did not run a
compatability check before making the installation. My
sound card is a soundblaster and my video card is a
GeForce2 with 32 megs of ram. My computer is about 2
years old. Since I posted my first post, I have restarted
my computer and the installation proceeded, leading to
this message...

One of the componets that windows needs to continue setup
could not be installed

Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Error

G:\i386\sqloledts.dl was not copied to C:\program
files\common files\system\OleD\sqloledts.dll

Because of the following error:

Error performing inpage operation

If installing from a disk, make sure disk is clean.

WELL, I am installing from a disk and it is very clean. I
do not know where to go from here. Pehaps take the disk
back? Who knows. Maybe I'll just go back to ME...
nawww. I could go into my computer drawer and find my
very old copy of windows 98. Thanks for the help.
Click to expand...

Since it is a clean install, [and you should have done a compatibility
check] start over. Power down, then open the case and make sure all hardware
cards, cables, ram modules are seated by removing and reinstalling. I don't
think it is necessary, but you might consider booting from a Win 98/Me
floppy and from fdisk delete any non-dos partition. You can either reboot or
create a fat partition and reboot. No need to format, as XP will do that
during setup.
Follow the steps below.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Please post back with results.
--

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Michael. I seem to remember reading in one of these groups that XP will only
format (at least in fat32) up to 32 gigs (his drive is 120 gigs), if that is
so, would he not be better using fdisk from a 9x boot floppy to first set up
his partitions, then change them as needed later?

Michael Stevens said:
Scotch said:
Thank you Bally Ally... here are the answers to your
questions. This is a clean install. I did not run a
compatability check before making the installation. My
sound card is a soundblaster and my video card is a
GeForce2 with 32 megs of ram. My computer is about 2
years old. Since I posted my first post, I have restarted
my computer and the installation proceeded, leading to
this message...

One of the componets that windows needs to continue setup
could not be installed

Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Error

G:\i386\sqloledts.dl was not copied to C:\program
files\common files\system\OleD\sqloledts.dll

Because of the following error:

Error performing inpage operation

If installing from a disk, make sure disk is clean.

WELL, I am installing from a disk and it is very clean. I
do not know where to go from here. Pehaps take the disk
back? Who knows. Maybe I'll just go back to ME...
nawww. I could go into my computer drawer and find my
very old copy of windows 98. Thanks for the help.
Click to expand...

Since it is a clean install, [and you should have done a compatibility
check] start over. Power down, then open the case and make sure all hardware
cards, cables, ram modules are seated by removing and reinstalling. I don't
think it is necessary, but you might consider booting from a Win 98/Me
floppy and from fdisk delete any non-dos partition. You can either reboot or
create a fat partition and reboot. No need to format, as XP will do that
during setup.
Follow the steps below.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Please post back with results.
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
Click to expand...
 
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