I have repeatedly booted from my Windows XP CD and tried to reinstall Windows. It goes as far as telling me that "setup will complete in approximately 39 minutes" and then just hangs there! I have repeated this same process over and over again with the same results. I have a legitimate copy of XP with a Microsoft Issued CD Key but it simply will not reinstall. It will get as far as "39 minutes remaining" and will stay like that overnight. I turn the computer off and let it try to resume installation and it gets as far as "39 minutes" and just hangs there. It is not locked up as it cycles thru all the Microsoft installation screens and tells me about all the features of XP but it will not go any further. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Use your XP disk to go back into the disk setup screen; totally remove all partitions so you have nothing but raw space. Reset your partition(s), format and let it install. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

I had one computer do that and it was the video card. If you can pull it out and stick another one in there try it. Then if it installs go back and put the other in and install the latest drivers for it. It is most likely some piece of hardware you have causing it. Girls just wanna have fun! Im out to help them all I can!

there can be many possible reasons cdrom drive harddisk drive ram finally can be cpu or motherboard. and if everything is fine use another cd to install.. Anuj - Bizgram Pte Ltd Singapore www.bizgram.com Test your system well before you make any query or ask doubts...: Where there is a will and way, there is also a problem and solution.

I want to preserve all my programs and their settings so I cannot delete partitions and reformat. It would destroy everything. I might try the video card suggestion. So you think it might be a hardware issue? Any further suggestions would be extremely helpful. I do not want to lose all my information. I thought about just installing Windows again under a different folder like WinXP but I would still lose all my program settings. Any further suggestions anybody? Thank you for the help so far! I really mean it! Thanks!

Unplug ALL devices (USB cameras, scanners, printers, firewire stuff, sound microphones, serial devices) and restart. If no go, if you feel brave enough, totally take everything out (PCI devices) and leave only the bare essentials: memory, HD, video card, and CPU. Maybe even unplug the mouse, too, only leave the keyboard? It won't hurt XP and once the installation finishes, you can just replug the mouse in and XP should automatically detect it and configure it. Good luck! Post back. -Andrew

Well I tried all suggestions offered so far. I have removed all external devices and all internal cards, switched to a different AGP video card, even removed the mouse as suggested. But still to no avail. The installation process still stops at "39 minutes remaining". No error messages are displayed or anything. It just sits there and shows me all of Microsoft XP's new features but that's it. This is getting frustrating. Any further suggestions? HELP!!!