[HLUG] Weird one.....

[Meijin]

Yup - it shuts down.

I actually have two versions of XP - the original XP disc for the PC and 
I now have brand new recovery discs from HP.....still no avail...

Cheers

Rob
Paul Stenning wrote:
> Try a different CD-ROM drive if you can, or try making a copy of the 
> Windows CD and installing from that.  I suspect the drive can't read 
> part of the CD for some reason.
>
> When you say "bombs out" does it crash, give an error or just appear to 
> freeze?  If it's just appearing to freeze, leave it 20 minutes or so to 
> make sure it really has frozen and isn't just on a go-slow.
>
> Paul
>
>
> Meijin wrote:
>   
>> I'm still struggling with trying to get Windows XP back on someone's 
>> laptop (and no they don't want Ubuntu - I've tried !)
>>
>> I can quite happily put Ubuntu onto the machine and it will run fine and 
>> happy.
>>
>> However, I cannot get XP back onto it as the install bombs out, usually 
>> about 25% of the way through (during file copies)
>>
>> I've tried a different hard disk just in case Ubuntu was less fussy 
>> about drive errors than Windows, but to no avail....
>>
>> I'm a little stumped to say the least.
>>
>> Anyone experienced anything similar and able to offer advice ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Rob
>>
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