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Somebody rescue me please!!

  • 05-10-2004 6:12pm
    #1
    wysel2003
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    I used to have windows nt on my dell latitude notebook i wanted to put xp home on it so i decided to format the drive and try and run windows xp,i partitioned my drive to ntfs as i heard its better for xp but my installation keeps stopping at "setup will complete in 13 minutes" and on the progress bar it says registering components!! ive reformatted again and tried to reinstall it but it keeps stopping at this point???? and for some reason its not even asking me for the authentication key anymore near the start of the whole process(if this makes any difference)??

    ive been trying to install this now for the last two days and my head is wrecked can somebody please please help me or tell me what im doing wrong!!


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  • #2
    Redshift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,486 ✭✭✭Redshift


    If it's not asking for the key any more it's trying to complete the first installation. the only thing i can suggest is to reformat your drive again to make it start from scratch and remove any pcmcia cards ect that you have in your laptop. also make sure your disk isn't all scratched up

    Red


  • #3
    Optikus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,415 ✭✭✭Optikus


    Have you tried a low level format, then reinstall.


  • #4
    Dr. Dre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Dr. Dre


    If it had NT on it I'm going to guess that it is rather old?
    What are the basic specs of the lappy?


  • #5
    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    had the same problem at 13minute left just leave it it will install,just leave it run away


  • #6
    wysel2003
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭wysel2003


    its an old lappy alright from 2001,it has 192 megs of ram and only 6 gigs of hard drive but i dont really want it for much!! its a dell latitude c series!!?? Gonna try leave it on overnight to see if it gets past the 13 mins,its wrecking me nut so i probably will run away haha


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  • #7
    Jammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Jammer


    this happens to me (even with brand new HDD and CD)...i just ejected the cd, and put it back in...it seemed to "wake up" then.


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