A friend's PC was running poorly and he wants to clean it off with a fresh install of XP, and give it to his daughter (primarily for surfin' the 'net).
As a precautionary, I ghosted the original image he had, then reformatted the drive.
I attempted to load my slipstreamed version of XP with IE7 and SP3 enbedded. I've used this version a couple times on other PCs so I know for a fact tht it works, but trying to install it on his machine has been unsuccesful.
It analyzes the drive, formats the partition (NTFS) copies all of the files to it, informs me it needs to shutdown and reboot to contiue installation. Once it shuts down and reboots, it starts all over analyzing the drive, formating the partion, and copying the files to it. I tried this 4 times with the same result. Then I started completely over with the original XP CD (not slipstreamed). XP Home, SP1. (very old original) and encountered the same problem. As I said, I've installed this many times before with no issue.
This is an older PC P-3 I think, with the old SDRam sticks (looks like DRR with 2 notches on the pin-edge.
I'm thinking about trying another HDD and see how that goes.

Any other thoughts?