need help setting up older system

[beserker15]

i'm trying to setup winxp for an athlon 1.2ghz system for my cousin. the only issue is when i go to boot from cd, it'll finish loading all the driverss in the first part and when it goes to start up windows, it'll just freeze. i also tried using a boot disk and doing E:\i386\winnt.exe and it freezes after a while too. when i go to boot from cd, the onboard mobo's antivirus warns that i have a boot virus on my hard disk. however, i have tried other hdd's and they all gave the same issue. i tried plugging the hdd into another machine and did a virus check and it came up with nothing. i even formatted the drive from NTFS back to FAT32 and it still gave the same issues. has any one experienced something like this?

 

[CrispyFried]

You may have something set in the BIOS that prevents the windows setup from modifying the boot sector/MBR. It may be called antivirus protection, boot sector protection or something like that in the BIOS, should be easy to find. Disable it for the install.

 

[flippe]

Another fix for this may be to get the disk for the hd,or a format program that can do a full format and partitioning of the hd per Windows XP Specifications, with the NTFS file system. I dont know about other hd companies, but seagate bundles a bootable cd that has diskwizard on it which can format and parition the hd this way, and it has fixed this kind of problem for me before.

 

[beserker15]

yeah, i believe it is seagate, though it's kinda old so i dont have any of the package, i can prolly go download it though. i've tried fdisk/format, would this be more effective? i've even updated the bios and it still doesn't work.

 

[mechBgon]

Updating the BIOS is different from going in and disabling its boot-virus protection. Get in there and hunt for it

 

[beserker15]

disabling it gets rid of that warning message that the hard disk has a boot virus, but it still freezes in that same spot. i tried downloading the discwizard thing for the seagate drive and when booting from floppy it fails to load reporting a "TNT.41400: INITEMULATOR:FLOATING POINT EMULATOR (EMUTNT.DLL) IS REQUIRED" error.