re: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses Friday, August 1, 2008 at 12:35 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Harry Clark (546 messages posted) Best guess would be to check your CD is clean and fingerprint free it it is dirty it can take many retries to read the data Cheers HC On Friday, August 1, 2008 at 12:27 pm, Clive Richardson wrote: >I'm trying to install Windows XP Home on a Dell Dimension 8100 and it's going through >the copying files stage which is pausing for long periods (like over 12 minutes) >seemingly with no activity at all. Then it kicks in again and continues but only >another 5% then it pauses again. What can be causing this? Written in response to: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Clive Richardson: Friday, August 1, 2008 at 12:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Clive Richardson: Friday, August 1, 2008 at 12:42 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Clive Richardson: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 12:27 pm) re: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Harry Clark: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 12:35 pm) re: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Clive Richardson: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 12:42 pm) re: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Spexx: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 1:44 pm) re: Installing Windows XP copying files pauses (Jacob6601: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 10:23 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