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XP won't go to the 2nd part of its installatioN

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jorwex

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So I've got a happy Ubuntu partition at the front of my 320GB disk. Then I've got a swap partition, and a few other document/data partitions and then at the very end, I decided to put back a little XP partition at the end of the disk.

So I started the XP install, loaded my sata drivers from a floppy (i know, i know...old computer). and it went through that first stage where it "copies setup files to your computer" or whatever. Then it warned me that it as going to reboot (normal), and then instead of continuing the install after the restart, it went right back to the beginning where it says "Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration."

What do I do? This is what I get for going back to the dark side 🙂
 
tell your BIOS to boot from the HDD?

Also, nothing wrong with having a floppy, my computer's way newer than yours and I've still got a floppy.
 
Originally posted by: Jax Omen


Also, nothing wrong with having a floppy, my computer's way newer than yours and I've still got a floppy.
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Same here. Not a USB one either. A real diskette drive connector. Been in about 12 PC upgrades now and still works and still saves my ass from time to time. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Peter
Hold back your reflexes when it says "press a key to boot from CD" and all will be well 😉
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I've installed XP hundreds, literally HUNDREDS of times before. I promise this is not because I'm pressing the button when it asks that.

Is there any other known reason why?
 
P.S. This happened a month ago when I was talking him through this exact process (installing windows on a primary, fat32 partition at the end of a drive with ubuntu installed at the front), and I didn't believe him. I'm trying myself and am having a hard time believing it. But apparently this is repeatable (we have completely different systems..he's got an old 3.0GHZ P4 Dell, I've got an older athlon 2500+ homebuilt pc), so there's gotta be a precedent.
 
Your BIOS might be having some difficulty getting the boot order right, try ejecting the CD as soon as the machine reboots and forcing the BIOS to boot from the HDD, you should get a clearer view of the situation then.
 
The normal flow of events is:

* BIOS configured to try CD/DVD first, then HDD
* Windows CD boots and prompts for keypress
* If no key pressed, the Windows CD bootloader hands control back to the BIOS, and BIOS boots off the HDD
 
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