Win XP Home

[keltic_tom]

Dear Larry,

I have installed Win XP Home many times without a problem now I am stumped. The only thing odd I notice is at the end.
The following list shows ...
152626 MB Disk 0 at Ido on bus 0 on atapi [MBR] unpartitioned space  152625 MB (note the 1MB difference). The last step is loading from two folder, shutting down and restarting to finish the loading. Then the following appears:
New Raw 152618MB  (152617MB Free) Again 1 difference.
The load stops, system restarts (auto) and reboots... the XP screen appears for a second, followed by another screen (loading will continue ....) Then it goes blank and the video looses it's signal and monitor light blinks and the screen goes black. This happens every time. When I return via fdisk I see the following: #4 Display partition information - Partition 1, Status A, Type NTFS, Volume Lable 'none', Mbytes 21545, System 'none' Usage 33%. Going in it says 152618 but it only 21545 gets loaded. I am at a loss.

Any ideas will be great fully appreciated.

Regards,

Tom O'Brien

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[stevix]

What's the scenario, a reinstall due to a problem/virus etc?

Is this a laptop with some form of restoration partiton?

Otherwise...
A full wipe of the drive first using a utility like GWSCAN would be my first approach, then assuming that completes with no errors, I have a clean drive to work with.

[stevix]

Assuming no restoration partition...formatting alone will not set the drive to "factory" which is what you really want in this case, again, assuming no restoration partition.

Wiping the drive will kill that if it's there, and a restoration cd (read $$) will be in order.