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XP fails to load

by Will
(Brenham,TX USA)

I have a Dell C810 Latitude that I am trying to install WinXP on.

So far I had no luck after a reformat of the hard drive. Windows as it load will always freeze at 33 minutes no matter what, I restarted this thing about 10 times and 33 min is as far as it will go and everything locks up or freezes.

Can you please tell me what is going or what procedure I can do to get fix this.

The reason for the reformat was after many failures to get past 33 min all fail. I am open for any suggestions I will try anything to get this resolve

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May 03, 2011
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by: Suuport

Hello Will,

I would suggest you run a check disk on the hard drive.

Windows 7 Emergerncy Repair Disk has a chkdsk.exe, the one I checked when loaded the windows files were on the X: drive and the check disk program was in the System32 directory.

To run this program you have to be in the command prompt section of the ERD.

See page 69 of Windows 7 Ultimate Guide for more information on using the Windows 7 ERD.

Or you could use ERD Commander to run a check disk.

Either way I think you have some bad sectors on the hard drive, one way to keep them from being used is to run the chkdsk.exe /f (the /f will lock out the bad sectors).

Or replace the hard drive and see it that stops the lock up during installation.

I came to the conclusion that the hard drive has bad sectors because you didn't indicate that there were any errors during the copy stage of the installation. If you are getting copy errors then it would be the installation media.

Hope this helps ...

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