Blue screen on install, Dell XPS Gen 3 SATA XP Pro SP2

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Are you booting from the winxp cd ?

"Billy >" <boysinloveNOSPAM@hushmail.com <Billy> wrote in message
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> I've been trying to do a fresh install of XP for months now. I finally got
> the diskette with the SATA RAID drivers on it, and get through the point
> where install asks you to press 'S' and finds and uses the SATA driver,
when
> install tries to continue I get a blue screen saying that XP install has
> been stopped to protect my drive, it recommends to check the drive for
virus
> and run chkdsk /f.
>
> I did a virus scan, and did run the full c: drive diagnostic tools then
> re-tried again only to loop at this same point. Sorry I didn't write the
> error number down, I can duplicate it if it is really necessary.
>
> I can still boot windows from the code on C:, run install with "upgrade"
> selected and it will install with the SATA drivers ok, but I want to
select
> 'full install' instead of the upgrade one and that's where the problem
> originates from, not being able to complete a fresh install.
>
>
>
> Can anyone suggest why this is happening, and a possible way around this
> point of stopping?
>
> Billy