Setup is starting Windows - HANGS!

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Once Windows XP Pro installs the installation files to the hard drive, the
system does not get past "Setup is starting Windows". I cannot perform any
diagnostics on the drives that I install to because Windows is not
installed...therefore what is there to do? My system has been paralyzed for
a week or so now. I have 1 new hard drive, and an old one that I am using
for storage. Both are Western Digital. The newest one (160GB Western
Digital) had Windows on it, and when I noticed my BIOS was not seeing the
full 160GB (it was seeing 137.4 GB), I reformatted, updated my BIOS to the
latest revision, and the problem STILL exists... I cannot install Windows!!
Formatted the hard drives and everything... if anyone can help me get past
the message "Setup is starting Windows", HELP!!

- Kevin

 

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=?Utf-8?B?RHJ1bW1zQjQ=?= rambled on in
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>
> Once Windows XP Pro installs the installation files to the hard drive,
> the system does not get past "Setup is starting Windows". I cannot
> perform any diagnostics on the drives that I install to because Windows
> is not installed...therefore what is there to do? My system has been
> paralyzed for a week or so now. I have 1 new hard drive, and an old one
> that I am using for storage. Both are Western Digital. The newest one
> (160GB Western Digital) had Windows on it, and when I noticed my BIOS
> was not seeing the full 160GB (it was seeing 137.4 GB), I reformatted,
> updated my BIOS to the latest revision, and the problem STILL exists...
> I cannot install Windows!! Formatted the hard drives and everything...
> if anyone can help me get past the message "Setup is starting Windows",
> HELP!!
>
> - Kevin
>
Remove everything except hdd, video and memory.