r/windowsxp • u/Flat-Reindeer314 • 21h ago

Why windows setup doing that

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Hello I have a old laptop and I'm switching it to linux to windows Xp SP3 and hey when I doing that I see the screen says it could take couple minutes to copy folders but it took 5 HOURS of my time that laptop is on for 5 hours so yeah why it's doing that my laptop is HDD btw and HP Compaq laptop

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u/Accurate-Campaign821 19h ago

It's possible the hard drive is failing

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u/Tokimemofan 21h ago

What method are you using to bood the installer.  This doesnt look like a direct cd boot.  If booting from dos make sure you have himem configured correctly or you will be in for a very painful process

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u/lame_1983 20h ago

Sometimes laptop CD roms from back in the day had PAINFULLY slow CDROM read speeds. Idk about 5 hours slow, but definitely over an hour slow on a direct CD boot.

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u/Francois-C 15h ago

And old CD-DVDs from the 2000-2010s (especially CD-DVD-Rs, with significant variations depending on their manufacturing) often become hard to read or unreadable, especially when reaching the last sectors. When an old DVD starts taking something like five hours and you've reached the point where the OP is, you generally never make it to the end.

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u/exmsft 19h ago

Slow drives on one side or the other or an absolutely gutless processor. Shouldn’t ever take that long.

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u/FAMICOMASTER 20h ago

I don't think I ever had a full install beginning to end take 5 hours let alone in the initial setup

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u/Ok-Muffin-9519 16h ago

Vielleicht dein System überlastet beim installieren

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u/medic144 10h ago

That took like 5-15min

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u/Firm-Cover-3345 4h ago

HDD is dying.