November 17, 200718 yr maybe I am forgetting something but I am trying to install XP on my sisters laptop. It is about a 3 year old Dell Inspiron. It has XP on it before but the hard drive crashed. I bought a new hard drive and the install makes it all the way down to 8 to 13 min left (at registering components) then it just hangs up. Here is what I have triedInstallation Media:XP Pro Dell OEMXP Pro Sp1 Dell OEMXP Pro SP2 Dell OEMXP Home SP1 OEMXP Home SP2 Dell OEMI have also tried using Windows PE and BDD2007 to deploy XP and it craps out on me tooI have NLited a few installsI have removed all hardware I can from the laptop(wireless card, modem, battery, additional ram)I even installed Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PC's just for sh!ts and giggles and it still locked up. I have installed XP probably close to a thousand times of times and have never encountered anything like this.Any other ideas I can try before I tell my sister her computer is garbage?
November 18, 200718 yr Does the machine have a setting for legacy USB? If so, you might want to make sure it's disabled. Also, is this a SATA or PATA IDE disk drive that you're installing to?
November 18, 200718 yr Author There were no Legacy USB settings. Just usb emulation, which was disabled. I have tried a few other things. I have updated the bios to the latest version along with the CD rom firmware from dells website. I have placed all hardware back into the laptop but disabled as much as I could. (internal modem, lan controller, wireless controller, heck even number lock, I have removed any additional boot devices except cd rom and HDD.) Still stops at registering components (12 min remaining the last 2 times).It is a PATA Drive
November 18, 200718 yr do what i did to the last Dell that was giving me problems. SLave it to your pc, install the os in it when its finshed switch it back . i did this twice so far an it works
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