Help before I chew my HEAD OFF!

[fimchick]

AAAH! Please please help me I'm about to explode. Ok so I go and format my hard-drive, put in the WinXP Pro Cd and run winnt.exe. Well, it starts copying files and then hangs at the "Please wait while Setup copies files." So I tried to read up on this problem and here's what I've done so far:

1. fdisk /mbr (didn't help)
2. booted off a floppy and ran smartdrv and then winnt.exe (didn't help, same problem)
3. booted off the cd, it goes in and then says "EULA Not found, press F3 to reboot"
4. copied the i386 folder to the hdd and tried to run from there (same problem, just hangs at the "Copying files" part.

Please help! THanks a BUNCH!

 

[pc_tek]

please only post a message in one forum group at a time, no need for repeats. see Tips and Tweaks, this message already there and being answered. thanks!

 

[noah472]

Try downloading the xp boot disks from here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310994

There is also a bit more info there about how and what to do!!

sorry pc tek posted before i realised

 

[fimchick]

Sorry :-/