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Friend of mine is installing WindowsXP Professional onto a new system. When he starts it up it checks for the hard disk, finds it, partitions it, formats it, then installs system files. After that it says "Windows XP will now restart your system and continue your installation". However, after it restarts it doesn't continue. He's given the option to install XP, fix an installation, or exit. Installing will restart the whole process (format drive, install system files, restart) and fix brings him to a DOS screen with C
Anyone know what's going on?
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