Recently I formatted my hard drive and wanted to start clean with a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on my Hard Drive. The only reason for the change from Windows 2000 was basically the fact that XP looks better and has some new interesting features. So I formatted my drive on saturday (today is tuesday) and booted up from the Windows XP CD. I followed the setup instructions carefully and got throught the first DOS part of the installation. Then it restarted, went into the windows part of the installer and carried on. It was setting up the devices and such and it brought up the regional settings dialogue. I set everything up as it said to, and finally I got to a screen that asked me where I lived and what my area code was. I entered "Canada" and "403" and clicked next. Then the installer shut down. I figured it was just the computer rebooting, so I let it do its thing. It came to the third part of the installation where it is in Windows but it is different from before. And all it said was "Setup is being restarted..." This frustrated me, but I let it setup again... and again... and again. Finally I got tired of this and formatted my drive and installed Windows 2000, put all my stuff back on my Hard Drive that I had backed up, and went on. Then yesterday I was reading another tech support forum and they told me to remove the modem, and if worse came to worse, just dual boot the OS's. So I threw in the Windows XP cd, and chose to upgrade from Windows 2000. Also I removed the modem as I was told. I went through the installation and everything just as before, but this time, it restarted the computer right after setting up the devices. It didn't ask for my regional settings, and from here I knew there was trouble. It went into the third part of the installer and said "Setup is being restarted..." so I shut off the computer, and turned it back on, hoping for a boot menu... but to no avail, it just went back into setup. So I had to format again, and I am just setting back up now.
So, Is there any way that I can install Windows XP without risking another format (I'm not losing information, it's just bloody time consuming and boring)? I mean 100% sure it's gonna work, because as I said before, I don't want to format again. Thanks.
So, Is there any way that I can install Windows XP without risking another format (I'm not losing information, it's just bloody time consuming and boring)? I mean 100% sure it's gonna work, because as I said before, I don't want to format again. Thanks.