Cant install XP home on HP PC

[Bad boy Warrior]

Anyone know whats going on here.......

im trying to install XP home on a HP PCwhich has a recovery disk.

i insert the floppy disk and it starts to run, it comes to a point where it says:

Extracting BIOSLOCK.EXE to C:\BIOSLOCK.EXE
Uncompressing 41408 bytes ok 
      1 files(s)

            This computer has no valid information

and i cant go past this - could someone tell me why please and how to resolve it?

Thanks

[dirtwarrior]

HP cant load off of floppies sory, but your xp cd should be bootable. Just put cd in the tray and restart puter then install from there after a while use Nlite to take some componants out of xp and make an UACD.

[tester_pedro]

the cd was shipped with HP hardware?

some big hardware manufacturers have special version of xp install cd that is dependant on hardware (the installation checks the hardware)

[Bad boy Warrior]

becuase its a recovery cd i have to put the floppy in first which then loads the CD rom contents to install the system. If i insert the CD then try to boot it does nothing (ive checked my boot settings)

thanks

p.s. yes the CD came with the hardware

[dirtwarrior]

must be something hp is doing to make sure everything is propietary hmmmm this sounds interesting. In the past I was able to load OS without floppies but boot off cd with HP interesting but must be vary frustrating to you.

I will look further into this but I am sure there is a work around for this.

I know you dont want to here this but This is 1 reason I dont use off-the-shelf puters. I like to choose the componants right for me,not for a company choose what is right for me, plus to upgrade or repair you must use propietary hardware/software.

I am sure we can find a work around for this. It is is the CMOS/Bios it has some lock on it. If I suggest something at this point and it messes up your puter you will be very p***ed at me plus it may void your warrentity. Maybe someone more knowledgable can help.

This will also help me as I repair computers and many I get people forget how important the restore disk is and either misplace them or destroy them. This is how I know how to do it on the older HP.

Good luck and I will be standing by because this is something I need to know.

[dirtwarrior]

I thought I would bring this up so people would see this. Its a very interesting issue and a silution would be great but I am at a loss.

[gamehead200]

How long have you had your computer?

One guess is that your CMOS battery might have run dry, causing the CMOS to clear itself...

Anyone else?

[wizardofwindows]

maybe u should fdisk wipe drive.once i ran nortons goback and later formatted when i rebooted goback continue to boot not allowing me to load xp it left some data in mbr or invisble paration so i fdisk every way and it worked .now not related but its a thought.

[HybridShadow]

I dont think he has an orignal XP cd - HP are mungruels with that

They have it so you cant give out copies of it and stuff like that

[atomizer]

had a funny thing happen with my HP at work; it had XP home preinstalled, which i got entirely sick of, so i dumped the entire drive, including HP's back-up partition, and installed XP pro. after doing that the on-board sound card didn't work, nor could i ever get it to work. i slapped in another card i had lying around. point is, i can't stand any OEM box. they use the absolute crappiest hardware they possibly can to get the job done and they're nothing but a hindrance for the hard core tweakers. i guess i was lucky to even get another OS installed

[HybridShadow]

Another funny thing about that is they had Xp Home on a work PC :S