[Ham-Computers] Sick 'Pooter'

[Ronald KA4INM Youvan]

> I have a machine with a problem that I have NEVER run into before:

> Have re-formatted HDD several times using either Maxtor install disk or
> Windows (fdisk, sys, etc.) and every time I try to install ANY version of
> Widows (95 to XP) it starts the install ok and then goes into "Copying files
> needed for windows setup and then it quits! (Locks up)

> The machine will boot normally to the C drive and a dir shows command.com
> io.sys, etc.
> I can load any other DOS-based program, but not windows.

> I have held the family cat over the machine  (CAT SCAN) and have had the big
> black family dog look it over several times (LAB TESTS) and still nothing.

> The machine appears to work OK except for the installation of windows.

> Any ideas?

   As an exclusive LINUX user, I fail to see any problem here.
I hope you did:  fdisk then format then etc.
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