JSI Tip 4369. Windows XP setup hangs during the file copy?

Jerold Schulman

November 5, 2001

1 Min Read
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After receiving Please wait while Setup copies files to your hard disk, Setup appears to hang?

There are a number of possible causes:

You started Setup from DOS mode.You loaded the SMARTDrive tool and you used the following switches:   /x   /c   /l   InitCacheSize   WinCacheSize   /E:1024You did not load Smartdrv.exe prior to running Winnt.exe.

To workaround the issue, run the smartdrv command without any switches.

NOTE: You may have to modify your Autoexec.bat file.

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