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Computer help: Installation will be finished in 34 minutes...
Installation will be finished in 34 minutes...
by mjugend - 10/16/05 8:49 PMI have a HP Pavilion 6470 where the OS was Windows 98 before I upgraded it to Windows PX. Because I gave it to a friend here in Brazil, I wanted to install the Windows XP in Portuguese and that’s when “disaster” happened. Everything was running ok and when it reached the point where it tells you in how many minutes the installation will be finished, reaching 34 to go, stopped installing. I tried several times and even did it using two different Windows XP CDs, tried again the English version, they both stopped at the same point (34 minutes to finish, that’s when it is installing devices).
In one of the tries it appeared:
INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 18.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
In other instance appeared:
The file acpi.sys is corrupted.
Press any key to continue.
Trying again it just stopped at the same 34 minutes dead point!!!
Any suggestion?
mjujend, Did You?
by Grif Thomas
- 10/16/05 9:13 PM
In reply to: Installation will be finished in 34 minutes... by mjugend
...do a full, clean installation of XP? (Repartitioning, reformatting, then reinstalling XP?) If you didn't and you still have the Windows 98 CD, you should try it.
If you did reformat the drive and you're still getting the same error, it sounds like the RAM was faulty or possibly the drive may be damaged and won't accept data correctly. If you've got two sticks of RAM, then remove one and try to reinstall. If you still get the error, swap the RAM sticks and see if it will work with only the second one installed.
Hope this helps.
Grif
Stalled Xp Installtion
by billzhills - 10/17/05 5:31 AM In reply to: Installation will be finished in 34 minutes... by mjugendmjugend
As mentioned by Griff you may have a hwd issue.
Download Power Max and check your drive.
If drive passes try another Optical device. I've had a couple of these drives fail when they get hot or if two drives are installed a bad drive interfers with the good drive.
Luck
Bill
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