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Trouble loading XP in HP notebook.

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RP Racing

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Not mine, but someone in another board I'm on having issues...

Anyone with pc repair experience. I've got an HP pavillion that shuts itself down whlie I'm trying to install XP. I suspect it got a virus when it started having problems, so I tried to format and reinstall and this is what happened. The HD failed the bios test, and a PC store also tested it and said it was bad and replaced it. However I did not want to pay them 3hrs labor to reinstall my software, so when I brought it home to load windows, the same thing is happening. It runs about to the point where setup asks you to create a partition and then shuts down(powers off). Any ideas?
 
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