Win XP Professional SP2 freezes

Hi there I am having a problem with XP SP2 install.

I had a laptop which hubby decided might like a cup of coffee - it didnt.

The laptop was replaced with one with Vista which I decided I didnt like.

I formatted the HDD and installed XP professional on it and found all the
current drivers from Toshiba and am slowly setting it all up manually.

I have now got to the XP SP2 install and the install keeps hanging at the
"checking product key" stage.

I followed the directions in this post about changing the product key:
Subject: Re: WINXP Pro - SP2 install "checking product key" 6/28/2007
10:48 AM PST By: realcestmoi In: microsoft.public.windowsupdate

However it has not helped and the install keeps hanging.

Has anyone else got any ideas that might help?

--
Helen

1) Please go into the CMD prompt (Start/Run --> cmd.exe )

2) Then type "cd /d %windir%\inf" and make sure we are in that
directory. (without "")

3) Then type "ren oem*.inf oem*.old," it will go back to the prompt
may give you some error (Do not worry about it) (without "")

4) Then type "ren oem*.pnf oem*.old1," it will go back to the prompt
may give you some error (Do not worry about it) (without "")

5) Then goto start - run - type "%windir%\inf" and you will see
the files in the folder. (with "")

6) Then find the file by name INFCACHE.1 and take a backup of it
to desktop (by copying it to desktop) and delete the INFCACHE.1
from c:\windows\inf.

7) Close all windows and reboot the computer to safe mode and
start the installation of SP2 and it should go fine.

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1) Please go into the CMD prompt (Start/Run --> cmd.exe )

2) Then type "cd /d %windir%\inf" and make sure we are in that
directory. (without "")

3) Then type "ren oem*.inf oem*.old," it will go back to the prompt
may give you some error (Do not worry about it) (without "")

4) Then type "ren oem*.pnf oem*.old1," it will go back to the prompt
may give you some error (Do not worry about it) (without "")

5) Then goto start - run - type "%windir%\inf" and you will see
the files in the folder. (with "")

6) Then find the file by name INFCACHE.1 and take a backup of it
to desktop (by copying it to desktop) and delete the INFCACHE.1
from c:\windows\inf.

7) Close all windows and reboot the computer to safe mode and
start the installation of SP2 and it should go fine.

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--
Helen



"Helen" wrote:

> Hi there I am having a problem with XP SP2 install.
>
> I had a laptop which hubby decided might like a cup of coffee - it didnt.
>
> The laptop was replaced with one with Vista which I decided I didnt like.
>
> I formatted the HDD and installed XP professional on it and found all the
> current drivers from Toshiba and am slowly setting it all up manually.
>
> I have now got to the XP SP2 install and the install keeps hanging at the
> "checking product key" stage.
>
> I followed the directions in this post about changing the product key:
> Subject: Re: WINXP Pro - SP2 install "checking product key" 6/28/2007
> 10:48 AM PST By: realcestmoi In: microsoft.public.windowsupdate
>
> However it has not helped and the install keeps hanging.
>
> Has anyone else got any ideas that might help?
>
> --
> Helen
>

thanks to all the changing the file instructions were the ones that worked

Helen