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XP Home on Compaq Presario 7360

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I've not been successful in several attempts to install XP Home (full) on an older Compaq Presario 7360 (AMD K6-2 500MHz, 100 MHz bus) with a 10GB hdd. I booted using Win98SE startup disk, then fdisk'ed (deleting both partitions, then creating one new partition) and formatted the hdd in FAT32. Rebooted with WinXP CD. Installation begins to copy files. I press F8 key to agree to MS's mumbo jumbo, then say to install XP on current partition. As soon as I press Enter, the setup thermometer appears briefly, the screen goes black and the installation stops. What's going on? How do I get past this issue? Thanks for any help.

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try deleting the partition once inside instead of installing on the current partition...reformat it with NTFS

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Name: Chuck 2
Date: March 8, 2004 at 11:13:09 Pacific

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HOW TO: Install Windows XP

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