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Gerry

January 6th 04, 06:41 PM

I am reinstalling XP Home on a Dell 4600 and the
installation is "hung" at installing network. Any
suggestions?

Malke

January 6th 04, 06:41 PM

Gerry wrote:

> I am reinstalling XP Home on a Dell 4600 and the
> installation is "hung" at installing network. Any
> suggestions?

There are two ways of installing XP - a clean install where the hard
drive is formatted first and an upgrade install where the new operating
system is installed "on top" of the old operating system. If you are
doing the latter, try a clean install instead. Formatting the drive
will wipe all current data, so you would expect to reinstall programs
from cd and restore data from backups. If you are already doing a clean
install and the installation is failing, you probably have bad
hardware. Since your installation is stopping with the network install,
if you have a separate nic, take it out for the install and put it in
after XP is up and running. If the nic is built-in, obviously you can't
do with. Another problem that can arise is bad RAM. Do a RAM test - I
like Memtest86 from www.memtest86.com - and let the test run for an
extended time, like overnight (unless you get errors immediately). If
the RAM is good, then run a hard drive diagnostic utility, which you
can get from the drive mftr.'s website. Dell also has diagnostic
utilities for their machines.

Malke
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February 6th 04, 06:14 AM