Windows XP hangs at about the same place

[buildingacomputer]

My friend's computer had power supply and mother board damaged. I don't know how it happened. I put my power supply and motherboard. Both were working when I upgraded mine.

Put Win XP CD, booted from CD, hard disk repartitioned (removed of existing partition) and reformatted (not quick format), files copied to hard disk. The computer was booting from the hard disk for the first time. It hung while the scroll bar was rolling. Rebooted by pressing the Reset button. It hung pretty much about the same place (but not the exactly same location as far as the scroll bar is concerned). Repeated resetting brings the computer to the pretty much the same place (judging from the scroll bar). What puzzles me is I installed Linux (Ubuntu) on the same hardware successfully. Is XP generally more demanding than Linux? What do you suspect?

 

[corkyg]

Will it boot into Safe Mode?

 

[buildingacomputer]

Does the computer prompt me to safe boot? If so, no, the computer does not prompt a safe boot. If I have to press certain keys, I don't know that that is. Thanks.

Let me explain it.
Push reset button.
Screen comes to "Booting From CD. Press Any Key to Start From CD."
No key is pressed.
Hard disk starts spinning.
Screen changes to Window XP logo with a short scroll bar underneath. Before the bar completes one full scroll, the bar gets stuck and doesn't move.

 

[wnied]

I think what Corkyg is asking you, is can you boot it into safe mode? You do this by waiting until just after the BIOS screen ends and the Windows screen begins, by clicking F8 a few times until the black screen shows and gives you the multiple choices to boot into different safe modes. Just choose the first safe mode choice and see if your OS boots into it. If it does, you likely have a driver issue with one of your drivers hanging up Windows on boot up. You can find out which driver, by rebooting the computer into Safe mode with logging.

~wnied~