Windows XP is far too difficult to install.

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: kalster
if you find windows diff to install please never venture into linux

Hmm, I'm guessing that you

A) have never installed linux
B) have installed linux, just not within the past couple of years
3) have never installed Windows

While some distros can still be a bitch, most can be installed and fully updated in less than a couple of hours.

 

[jjones]

Who downloaded these copies and burned them to disk? Sounds like they either weren't burned as bootable in one case, and corrupted in the other case. Get new, correctly burned and uncorrupted CD's and try again.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: kalster
if you find windows diff to install please never venture into linux

Hmm, I'm guessing that you

A) have never installed linux
B) have installed linux, just not within the past couple of years
3) have never installed Windows

While some distros can still be a bitch, most can be installed and fully updated in less than a couple of hours.

Well, the last time I did it was about 2.5 years ago, and I had to write my own CD-ROM driver. That turned me off.

 

[dug777]

Installing Xp is a breeze i find

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
An Elite member who doesn't know where to post a thread?

or how to install an OS...

 

[Ranger X]

Unlike Linux, Microsoft REALLY dumbs it down for users to be able to install their operating systems. If you can't install WinXP I would just give up computers all together this instant.

 

[loup garou]

Maybe you should wait for Vista.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
An Elite member who doesn't know where to post a thread?

Nik in 3...2...1...

To the OP, sounds like you might have a hardware issue if it keeps crashing during the install. Possibly memory? Or a hard drive problem? Is this a SATA drive?

 

[suse920]

Yup very tricky, you might not want to ever wenture into linux then...
Also just boot via floppy disk like a windows 98 boot one. Then run the cd, works like a charm.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Oscar1613

Originally posted by: Phil
Sukhoi: Grab a Windows 98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, boot with that, type "smartdrv" to turn on the disk cacheing, and then x:\i386\winnt.exe (replace x with your CD-ROM drive letter).

Voila.

It's not Microsoft's fault if the CD supplied by your school isn't bootable. I'd suggest ranting at them a bit

Failing that, remake the CD yourself using some of the easily-found methods on the web.

winnar!

I went one step further at work and not only built a XP disk with SP1 (I am working on building a SP2 disk that is 'GHOST/sysprep' friendly, I then built an image of the basic install (office and a few programs everyone needs)...

In about 10 mins I have a SP1 machine with a suite of programs. Then I just install SP2, re-register citrix and trend AV.

About 30 mins and mostly unattended....

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

I vote Win98 boot disk with unbootable XP cd 4tw!

 

[thirdlegstump]

Why not just get a Mac? It simply works without hassles.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: kalster
if you find windows diff to install please never venture into linux

Hmm, I'm guessing that you

A) have never installed linux
B) have installed linux, just not within the past couple of years
3) have never installed Windows

While some distros can still be a bitch, most can be installed and fully updated in less than a couple of hours.

i installed linux recently and still find xp to be the easiest OS to install out of the box, not to say linux is a pain to setup, but for joe user windows is still easy to install that is all

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: Phil
Sukhoi: Grab a Windows 98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, boot with that, type "smartdrv" to turn on the disk cacheing, and then x:\i386\winnt.exe (replace x with your CD-ROM drive letter).

Voila.

It's not Microsoft's fault if the CD supplied by your school isn't bootable. I'd suggest ranting at them a bit

Failing that, remake the CD yourself using some of the easily-found methods on the web.

Thanks man, I didn't realize SmartDrive came on the Win98 bootdisk. I have one sitting right here.

bleeb, one of our calculators is broken. I get 0.70710678118654752. So that would round up to what I have.

I think I know what happened with the CDs. The first XP CD I burned over a year ago, and I'm starting to remember that I DLed it just as a .ZIP file and then burned the contents straight to CD. The second one I just got a few months ago and it actually came as a .ISO, which would explain why it's bootable and the first one isn't.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: Phil
Sukhoi: Grab a Windows 98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, boot with that, type "smartdrv" to turn on the disk cacheing, and then x:\i386\winnt.exe (replace x with your CD-ROM drive letter).

Voila.

It's not Microsoft's fault if the CD supplied by your school isn't bootable. I'd suggest ranting at them a bit

Failing that, remake the CD yourself using some of the easily-found methods on the web.

Thanks man, I didn't realize SmartDrive came on the Win98 bootdisk. I have one sitting right here.

bleeb, one of our calculators is broken. I get 0.70710678118654752. So that would round up to what I have.

I think I know what happened with the CDs. The first XP CD I burned over a year ago, and I'm starting to remember that I DLed it just as a .ZIP file and then burned the contents straight to CD. The second one I just got a few months ago and it actually came as a .ISO, which would explain why it's bootable and the first one isn't.

Ah...so that's why it's Microsoft's fault. :roll:

 

[Syrch]

i love xp personally

 

[MrCodeDude]

You suck at the computers if you can't install XP.

 

[SSP]

I thought this was a parody thread at first.

 

[venk]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
An Elite member who doesn't knowhow install windows?

fixored

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: cirthix
retail xp starter
retail xp home
retail xp pro
retail xp home corporate?
retail xp pro corporate
retail sp starter sp1?
retail xp home sp1
retail xp pro sp1
retail xp home corporate sp1?
retail xp pro corporate sp1
retail xp starter sp2?
retail xp home sp2
retail xp pro sp2
retail xp home corporate sp2?
retail xp pro corporate sp2
oem xp starter
oem xp home
oem xp pro
oem xp home corporate?
oem xp pro corporate?
oem sp starter sp1?
oem xp home sp1
oem xp pro sp1
oem xp home corporate sp1?
oem xp pro corporate sp1
oem xp starter sp2?
oem xp home sp2
oem xp pro sp2
oem xp home corporate sp2?
oem xp pro corporate sp2?

edit: listed oem and retail too, i think i got them all listed

priated xp pro corporate :thumbsup:

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: Phil
Sukhoi: Grab a Windows 98 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, boot with that, type "smartdrv" to turn on the disk cacheing, and then x:\i386\winnt.exe (replace x with your CD-ROM drive letter).

Voila.

It's not Microsoft's fault if the CD supplied by your school isn't bootable. I'd suggest ranting at them a bit

Failing that, remake the CD yourself using some of the easily-found methods on the web.

Thanks man, I didn't realize SmartDrive came on the Win98 bootdisk. I have one sitting right here.

bleeb, one of our calculators is broken. I get 0.70710678118654752. So that would round up to what I have.

I think I know what happened with the CDs. The first XP CD I burned over a year ago, and I'm starting to remember that I DLed it just as a .ZIP file and then burned the contents straight to CD. The second one I just got a few months ago and it actually came as a .ISO, which would explain why it's bootable and the first one isn't.

Ah...so that's why it's Microsoft's fault. :roll:

No, I was bitching that I have two XPPro CD keys here and neither work with the working XPPro CD I have.