My friend handed me his laptop today claiming it was dead and that it would not start and work. i turned it on and found that it was in the middle of a fresh windows installation of windows xp home sp 3. i called him and asked what he had done and he said he had tried to wipe the computer as he has done before only the power went out in the middle of the installation and now it wont finish. i have his copy of the install disc, and have tried to finish the install but it continues to look for a file by the name of "amsm". i have tried to boot straigh from cd using the boot menu but it only brings me back to the half finished install screen which is stuck at 39 minutes remaining. i have tried using a retail version of windows xp sp 3 from my work and still was unable to get it to boot from disc. if someone can help me to boot it from the disc i can install it just fine, just stuck at that point. thanks for all the help.
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Jump to PostYou posted the same in two section, in reality, you only need post the query once. I install my SP 3 from a download, about 300MB in size.
Like SP2 on a SP1 version of XP, you should be able to just remove a failed install packet like that …
Jump to Posttry disabling from hard drive in bios temporarily. And then boot from the install disc. Alternatively you could also get a boot CD like Hiren's BootCD and completely erase the hard drive of any existing windows installation. This way when you boot …
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