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ummm..he has a HP computer with a 1.1Ghz processor, 256mb ram. running on windows xp home edition(well was anyway) so i just loaded the damn thing after the pc was running already and it came up to the windows xp pro menu...so i did all that and then it said upgrade(recommended) and i checked that one. and everything was going smoothly until about the 3rd stage which is installing devices and after the hafl way point ...it just hangs there for toooo phreaking long. so i tried to reboot like 20 times and each time after the boot sequence is over it goes windows xp pro installation restarted and it starts off again on the 3rd stage and again it would hang in the middle of it. his HP had the HDD partioned into sections..i think one was in case someting bad happened it would use that section to boot up normallly. cause it showed HDD... C & D but when i opened it up it had only one drive. so i must of installed pro in that partion of the HDD. but i think im gonna have to disconnect the HDD and leave the cd rom drive connected so that the pc can boot up from there once i put the cd rom and load it up so that it can do a clean install.