Comments on: XP Installation – The 34 minute hiccup

By: donji

donji — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:21:01 +0000

had to delete 4 “infs” including machine .inf over 4 reboots >>>works great now!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:31:21 +0000

YOU ARE THE MAN, THANKS SO MUCH. I was about to throw the computer out the window until I read this. Thanks nitinpai

By: litewavve

litewavve — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:58:07 +0000

I got stuck at 34 minutes too.

The F8-debugging works for me. I think it was due to ATI driver issue. Thanks for the help I got from this page. The information is very valuable.

By: gratzc

gratzc — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:50:39 +0000

THANK YOU. That has been a problem I have run into many times and have had to format to fix it, but now i can just use your solution. This is a gem. I had been working on a pc, hoping not to format, for 5 hours when i finally came across this solution. WOW, thanks again.

By: evrim

evrim — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:13:26 +0000

thanks a lot!!! i finally solved 34 minute problem…

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:48:58 +0000

Hey guys, I had the same problem once at 34 min with machine.inf, and once at 32 min with my wireless card. For the machine.inf try leaving it to think overnight, it worked for me. However the 32 min error was frozen completely, which sent me looking for this site.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:32:29 +0000

my culprit was oem0.inf, oddly it wouldn’t allow me access to delete it but has miraculously moved on with the install process. not sure how or why, but thanks for this solution as it kept me sane through the issue.

By: RED

RED — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:10:22 +0000

Best fix. Thanks. Tried dozens of solutions. This one works!!!!

RED

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:01:41 +0000

Hi, I am still having a problem with the 34 min thing! I can not get into the inf file to delete the problem, it is the same problem stated by a few other people. atimpab.inf. My screen will only show C:\> I can not get rid of > and that seems to be causing a problem. I can pull notepad up but I can not delete the file from notepad. Is there any other option for getting into the inf folder. This is an auto promt that comes up C:\> (then I typed in WINDOWS\inf after the >) Thanks for all the other posts…I have tried everything…debugging did not work either, disabling everything did not help either.

By: Fairuz Talib

Fairuz Talib — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:38:24 +0000

Referring to my previous comment, it’s not Microsoft mouse… actually it’s Dell’s mouse.