Yes, I'm definitely booting from the CD drive. Just checked it once again in the BIOS.
I've just used my own XP disk and proceedings halt at the same spot. That's after the files have loaded.
Just a few minutes before, I removed the HDD, connected it to an adapter and tried to format it by connecting it to another machine. That road was denied to me as I couldn't get the host machine to see the other drive.
Your efforts are appreciated, Gentlemen.
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