Win XP stability

[Geomagick]

I seem to have encountered a bizarre problem which leaves me with an unusable system after I install the Virtual Machine on my copy of XP Pro.
I get a wonderful blue screen, a moments pause and the computer restarts. Windows will then fail to load even after folllowing all of micrsofts instructions. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered a similar problem.

 

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Was this after a fresh install?

 

[Geomagick]

Yes. On several attempts. I tried rearranging hardware disabling the RAID controller, sometimes the install just wouldn't work but I solved that by changing the master/slave settings on the DVD/CDRW drives.

I have been unable to perform a successful upgrade on top of win2000.