XP won't install on new drive

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:36 pm

Ok. I got a new hard drive on Tuesday. Ran the set-up disc like it told me too, then tried to install XP on it. XP froze up during the install, and it keeps coming up on a blue screen of death whenever I try to run it.

Any ideas on how I can get XP to install, because this has completely removed my ability to use my computer (typing this from my parent's computer).

Anime2Envy · Post by **Anime2Envy** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:52 pm

When are you geting the error message (what stage of installation) and what does it say? Also any other new hardware?

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:28 pm

um, somethings fucked. are you using a dogy warez version of windows by any chance ? they tend to fuck up alot

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:00 pm

I dunno what stage of install, it got to the actual files copying, but after that it just gives me a Blue Screen of Death.

I'm just installing Win 98 on the thing and will try to upgrade to XP from there. -_______-

Kenshin8518 · Post by **Kenshin8518** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:18 pm

Ahh the same error as me. You are not by chance using a Burned copy are you? I think I may know what the problem is:

When it happened to mine, I took it to my dad's friend (as he reapirs computers), and he told me that it was a corrupt section on my Maxtor Hard Drive... For me, all he did was reformat my Hard Drive, load some floppy disc, which fixed my Hard drive, and poof: now i am happily using Windows XP Pro.

Hmm... *thinks for a few minutes* Ah, it was a corrupt partition or something like it... My old OS (norton as i call it) screwed up the partitions and other crap on my Hard Drive, causing Windows XP to fail to a blue screen, and thus, leaving me without an OS......