When I get to the setup point and have to hit enter, my keyboard won't let me. It's not a disk scratch, pirated copy, bad hard drive, or bad keyboard (in fact I've tried other CD's and other keyboards, even usb keyboards). So this is the whole reason I went about to make an automated CD; it went all good until it wanted me to put in my old version of windows and push enter. It will not, absolutely WON'T, let me hit enter. Please help me find the right direction for the upgrade version.

Otherwise every time I install XP I have to painfully format, then install windows 98, then begin installing xp, format, and continue. And that is if it works (I'm still waiting for it to format pre-windows 98).

Doh: I'm new, maybe this should have been under the XP section :

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=34

Can a mod move it for me?

Edited June 4, 200620 yr by aloron

Aloron,

Can I ask a question before this thing gets hauled off somewhere, where I can't find it?

Why are you reinstalling Windows, more than once?

Your best bet if this is (for some crazy reason) something you're going to have to do again, is to do the install, get it all exactly the way you want it and then make a Ghost Image of C: and burn it to a CD or DVD for a permanent Restore Disk.

I do this for my customers after I set up a new computer for them. It blows away the factory restore disk.

You can drop me a PM if you want specifics.

Andromeda43

It's a new hard drive. I never installed it here, the old one crapped out on me, and this happened to me on the old one before it crapped out. I just need it to install once, but I can't get it to go past the part where I hit enter (after sticking in the Windows 98 cd, when the XP install asks for it), because the computer wont let the keyboard work during this step.

you sure its not the point where you have to hit F8 ?

look at the bottom of the screen, it says what to hit!

you sure its not the point where you have to hit F8 ?

look at the bottom of the screen, it says what to hit!

I was sure, but I did manage to get around this error by installing Windows 98, then using the automated disk I made. I had previously tried this, but I couldn't find my Windows 98 CD KEY, and at 3:33 in the morning while sweating and searching in the attic, I found it.