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i am trying to install windows xp service pack 3 onto my Acer Extensa 5510 notebook laptop for the last 48 hours...but seem to fail every time. There was an 80gb hard drive in it already but the windows on that kept freezing every time it loaded to a state where i couldnt even move the mouse, was working perfectly fine before, so i decided to install a brand new 200gb hard drive so i can store more of my work in it. Once installed, i inserted the windows xp sp3 disk, and formatted the hard drive to ntfs (quick) and then the files started to copy, once that was done, it restarted and the actual installation part started. it went from 39 minutes down to 35 minutes and froze on the installing devices part. i thought it was a common error so i restarted the setup. this time it went to 34 minutes and froze. i restarted setup again, and it went all the way down to 8 minutes and froze. i restarted the setup one more time, and it got stuck on 35 minutes. for the rest of the day, most of the times it would get stuck on 34/35 minutes and either froze or restarted the laptop for no reason. Only once, it went down to 23 minutes and froze. only 2 out of 30 tries went past the install devices section.
The specification is as follows:
Model: Acer Extensa 5510
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66ghz
Hard Drive: 200gb SATA
RAM: 1gb
15.4" screen and built in wireless
i will give a more detailed specification in a few hours, as it is dark right now and the laptop is in a room where there are people sleeping
someone please help me out...really need to get coursework done this holiday and hate going local library as i only get one hour max there to use a computer
your help will be much appreciated and will remember you always as the one who helped fix my laptop
The specification is as follows:
Model: Acer Extensa 5510
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66ghz
Hard Drive: 200gb SATA
RAM: 1gb
15.4" screen and built in wireless
i will give a more detailed specification in a few hours, as it is dark right now and the laptop is in a room where there are people sleeping
someone please help me out...really need to get coursework done this holiday and hate going local library as i only get one hour max there to use a computer
your help will be much appreciated and will remember you always as the one who helped fix my laptop