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About your reformat. How did you do that? We often see users who reformat a hard drive with some 3rd party bootable utility, then run into problems when they use the Windows CD to install Windows.
The proper way is to insert the Windows CD, restart the computer, then use that Windows CD to delete all partitions, then perform a format. Only then will Windows, (in this case XP), continue on to install correctly.
Other problems that can arise.
1] What is the size of this hard drive? If it is greater than 127GB then XP, (the one with no Service Packs, will limit the size of the drive to 127GB. XP's SP1 fixed that.
2] SATA drives. If your Desktop uses SATA hard drives then XP does not know what SATA is. XP needs SATA drivers installed, from a floppy disk or may be from a USB memory stick, during the XP setup procedure.
3] Other drivers, chipset, video, sound and network drivers, need to be available on a CD to be installed after XP setup has finished and Windows can load.
But first we need to know what your initial steps were.
Mark
Thanks for the help on the issue I posted. I kept getting more issues to deal with .I have a T 5010 Emachine desk top running windows XP home edition. I did a repair to try and solve all the problems this did not help. So I Did a reformat and when it was to start windows up I got this error message <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. and windows will not start. I run Repair with the disc that came with it. It still comes up with the same error could you please help me with this. Thanks CWTX

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