Trouble installing WinXP Home SP2 (Legit)

In short I bought the Premium version of Parallels a couple of days ago along with a legitimate copy of Windows XP Home Edition (SP2), downloaded the update (of Parallels), installed that, activated it, then went on to create a virtual machine and installed WinXP. Now, after rebooting, the system booted from the hard drive to continue with the installation. The CD is still in there, but it seems nothing is going on. It's always stuck at: Setup will complete in approximately 39 minutes. Then you see the tiny green squares at the bottom right light up.

If it helps, my specs are: MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo / 2GB RAM / 80GB HD / Leopard

- Thanks in advance

 

Have you tried imaging the disk and installing from that?

 

I've got the same configuration (Core 2 duo MacBook, 10.5.4, 2gb ram, 250gb hard drive, fresh install of the latest Parallels build) and have this exact same problem.

The difference is that I am using XP Pro Academic Edition (I am a student and it is legit with a serial and everything). Well it WILL NOT install. Not from the CD, not from an image, not with Express, and not with a custom installation. It just sits there at 39 minutes with the little green squares animating. I left it like that for 4 hours...it didn't advance. I restarted several times to try and get it to go...no good.

I bought a SECOND copy of XP Pro (not academic) that installed just fine...which I thought was rather lame. I tried the academic version again and it still won't do it.

 

bekabug: Either the CD is corrupted, in which case (if) you can try to install it on real machine and if it does the same it's probably true. Or there's something inherently different in the Academic Edition, maybe it only works on hardware with certain specs.

 

My friend is going to try to put the academic version on her EeePC tonight/tomorrow and see if it works. If that goes ok she's gonna buy the CD from me...if not it's a coaster I guess. I don't know what to do with it. The place I bought it from won't take it back because it has been more than 90 days since I purchased it. (I have been trying all this time to get it to install, thinking I was doing something wrong.)