re: Problems installing XP Monday, December 17, 2001 at 7:11 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rick (1 messages posted) I had a similar problem, about a minute of file copying and it froze. The target drive must be partitioned and formatted with FAT32, then boot with a Win98 startup disk that has a copy of smartdrv.exe from win98. Run smartdrv, then run i386\winnt. I still get a pause for several minutes during the blue screeen with the message "copying files to disk", but it soon resumes and continues through the installation. You will get a message from setup if you are not running smartdrv, but this is the only way I could get through the file copy. On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 1:54 pm, Andrew wrote: >I have a AMD Athlon 1.2 ghz with the asus A7v 133 motherboard. I have not been able >to install either 2000 or XP on my computer and I need help. Everytime I try to install >the blue screen comes up and it loads a bunch of setup files and then freezes before >it ever gets anywhere. I have tried taking all my other cards out of the computer, >and even swithced graphics cards but nothing seems to work. Does anyone know what >I am doing wrong, or what I can do to fix it???? >Please help. >Andrew Written in response to: Problems installing XP (Andrew: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 1:54 pm) Responses to this message: re: Problems installing XP (JuicedX: Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 8:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Problems installing XP (Andrew: Wed, Dec 12, 2001, 1:54 pm) re: Problems installing XP (Victor: Wed, Dec 12, 2001, 3:19 pm) re: Problems installing XP (J.Cerezo: Sat, Dec 15, 2001, 1:32 am) re: Problems installing XP (jay: Thu, Dec 13, 2001, 6:41 am) re: Problems installing XP (Rick: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 7:11 pm) re: Problems installing XP (JuicedX: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 8:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum