Xp installation stops

When installing the Guest additions in VirtualBox 1. Then it appears to hang. However, if the installer window is moved to the side, it is revealed that it is actually awaiting the user to confirm installation of the non-WHQL-approved video driver. This window appears behind the installer window and does not show up on the taskbar--I only noticed it because I accidentally moved the Additions installer window to the side by accident when I meant to move a Windows Update window instead.

The same thing happens in 2. After clicking on "Continue Anyway", the installer hangs at the "Installing video driver With 2. Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical computer professional community.

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No problem. Then decided to put Linux Fedora 4 on it. Fine but it wouldn't install the NIC properly. I then decided to reinstall XP. I ended up Fdisking the drive to kill all partitions, but the XP install hung at 35 minutes - installing devices. After many many many retries I: 1. Booted XP CD to recovery console. Disconnecte my network cable 4. I have not idea what was wrong I just kept plugging until it worked. Tried restoring the BIOS defaults and rebooting, but still have the hang on 35 minutes.

Gonna try the reboot again, and then search for more options. The search for a valid 'Repair' continues It's impossible to say, as the XP install process has no error reporting that I'm aware of. Hope this helps folks. The OS won't run in Safe Mode. Is there at least a way to salvage some files before I decide to through all away?

Thanks-it worked Removing the extra memory and running with only MB worked. It got me past when the installation hunged up at 34 minutes remaining where it was installing devices. Thank you! Anarchi said:. Can't belive the solution was so simple I was so frustrated with it hanging at 34 minutes no matter what I did that I was about to just reformat my drive and do a fresh install, even though that would mean losing tons of files I tried transferring as much of the GBs of files I had on the drive to other HDs, but ran out of space and hours upon hours of 3rd party software reinstallations.

But I decided to give it one more shot, this time unplugging all the other hard drives. But it did nothing for the installation hang up though it did cause the monitor cycle through power save mode repeatedly with the screen going black then resuming the installation screen display. But the instant I unplugged the ethernet cable, the installation progress bar moved for the first time and went down to 31 minutes, and then finally completed the repair install.

Thanks for the help, good people!