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retrospect

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XP Home Wont Load
« on: August 03, 2006, 06:36:06 PM »
Im trying to fix my cousins computer, HP somethin or other (fairly new)

He bought it from bestbuy and never received software of xp for it.  XP was currently loaded by them and was (believe it or not) not working correctly.

I zero filled his 160GB hard drive (maxtor) with Max Blast 4.  Then I partitioned it likeso (C: 7GB primary FAT32, AND D: 153GB logical, FAT32) using partition magic 8

He just bought a legit copy of Windows XP Home Edition    and I throw it in the cd-rom and restart. Everything starts going on track and it begins copying files over, and right as soon as it starts the actual setup I get a dark blue screen
"session 3 initialization error" and theres more msg but I never wrote it all down

The weird part about this all is that he has a burnt copy of windows xp PRO, and it loads fine, no problems.

Anybody have any ideas?? Pleaseee help. Im guessing a Hardware problem, but since xp PRO loads stumps me..

GX1_Man

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Re: XP Home Wont Load
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2006, 06:54:55 PM »
It is no doubt under warranty. Use it. You have done enough ;)

retrospect

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Re: XP Home Wont Load
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2006, 08:00:19 PM »
Case Closed. First CD-Rom would not load XP, second CD-Rom loaded. Weird!?!

GX1_Man

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Re: XP Home Wont Load
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2006, 08:10:57 PM »
OK then. Thanks for posting back.  ;)