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This might help, from Microsoft Technet on this issue. You might want to post the error screenshot (using a camera) or look for the error log file left in a temp folder from the attempted install.
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SUMMARY
When you are installing Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on a new computer or on a computer that has the latest SCSI or IDE controller technology, you may have to use an OEM device driver to support, for example, a new mass storage controller, to continue with the installation. The symptoms that you have to install an OEM device driver include the following:
• The computer may keep restarting and never start the GUI installation after the text mode Setup is finished.
• The Setup program may stop, and you may receive an error message if the Setup program does not correctly detect the controller.
• If you are booting from the installation floppy disks or CD-ROM disc, you receive the following error message:
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your system
If you are upgrading by using the Winnt32.exe file, or if you are performing a new installation by using the Winnt.exe file, you receive the following Stop error:
Stop 0x0000007B Inaccessible_boot_device
This behavior may also occur after you update the firmware or the BIOS of a supported SCSI controller if the update causes incompatibility with the SCSI driver that is included with Windows.
MORE INFORMATION
During the text-mode phase of the setup process, Windows pauses briefly and prompts you to press F6. This option is displayed in the status line and lets you use an OEM mass storage controller driver. The F6 option is provided strictly as a means to install OEM drivers for mass storage controllers only. This is required to let the installation of the operating system continue. Microsoft does not support using F6 to install any device driver other than mass storage controller drivers.

Note Mass storage controller drivers can be loaded only from floppy disks by using the F6 key. The F6 key cannot be used to load drivers that are stored on USB flash drives, on USB hard disks, or on other external storage devices.

Use of an OEM driver is limited to installing a driver that is not natively supported or that does not match a driver that is included with Windows. If you use a newer version of an OEM driver, and this new OEM driver has the same name or Plug and Play Identifier as a driver that is included with Windows, the Setup program ignores the new OEM driver and uses the driver that is included with Windows. Therefore, you receive the error message that is quoted in the Summary.

If you press F6 when you are prompted, you receive a screen that requires you to have the appropriate driver on a floppy disk and to insert the disk into the floppy disk drive to load the driver.

Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by download from Microsoft. The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run the Setup program on computers that do not support a bootable CD-ROM. For additional information about how to obtain and use the Setup boot disks, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
310994 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994/) How to obtain Windows XP Setup boot disks
Note The Windows Server 2003 family does not include Setup boot floppy disks.

If you require an updated OEM driver to support an existing controller that is natively supported by Windows but is not detected during setup, you must replace the Windows driver for the controller with the new OEM driver. You can find the Windows driver for the controller on one of the six Windows Setup boot disks or in the temporary installation folder ($WIN_NT$.~BT). This replacement allows Windows to use the updated OEM driver during text-mode setup, but you must copy the same updated OEM driver to the System32\Drivers folder of the final Windows installation before the installation continues into graphics-mode setup.

Note that if you choose to format the partition in the NTFS file system during setup, you cannot copy the newer OEM driver into the System32\Drivers folder after text-mode setup finishes. This is because the Windows Setup program formats the partition as NTFS before copying files. To work around this limitation, install Windows into a file allocation table (FAT) partition that is less than 2 GB in size or into a FAT32 partition that is less than 32 GB in size. Doing this allows access by using a startup disk from Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me). After Windows is installed, use the following command to convert the FAT or FAT32 partition to NTFS:
convert c: /fs:ntfs

Useful links and ideas/solutions for users/developers running Linux: specifically using Fedora/CentOS/RHES etc.

Starter: To play MP3, AVI etc on your Fedora 7 machine use this guide: http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f7-tips.php

Linux HOWTOs: http://www.howtoforge.com/

Fedora 4-5-6 ++ Guide http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html

Starting this to discuss HPC's. This is used now to solve lots of problems in science, industry, finance, weather using not just huge massive computers but computers netowked together to solve problems using parallel computing.
An application area related to a posted forum topic is computer 3d graphics - crowd simulation. This takes a lot of time, sometimes days/weeks on a high-end workstation to render a high quality picture especially with advanced ray tracing, but this can be reduced to hours using even a couple of computers working together. For my 3ds max crowd simulation, l rendered the resulting graphics and avi animation file in a couple of hours using the backburner networking software and 3 machines l had on my LAN (local area network).
All major movie production firms have or source out their own cluster power called render farms.
Google does the same. Note, google choose to cost-effectively build their cluster using lots of low powered pentium boxes instead of expensive top of the range machines.
For those interested in adding their personal computer's computing power towards solving medical issues pertaining to africa and the world, see: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org and l'll suggest joining team "african3". This is also known as BOINC.
Open source software such as ROCKS (based on the well known stable linux distro Centos ) enables you to build a cluster very easily - google for their website.
Anyone needing help on such projects please. feel free to contact me.

Heres a link to another crowd simulation demo, done using 3ds max 9

http://my.mbah.net/media

Note: Website for blender is http://www.blender.org not blender dot net.
My suggestions, use google and do a search for 3D tutorials - there are tons of them with example.
Eg. http://www.tutorialized.com http://www.3dkingdom.org
Also, l personally think 3DS Max is easiest to use and from my experience l noticed most game and cartoon developers in China and USA use it. Maya is considered the ultimate, used in most major movies - it can do anything (but would not make your movie files, just the rendered pictures for you to join into a movie file using say Adobe Premiere). Blender as with all open source software has a learning curve - some say hard, but at least you don't have a problem getting a legit full-version 3d software with no license fees.
I personally use all 3 but blender the least.
Note. Most real 3D artists esp. in USA use a bit of all 3 but will have their expertise in 1 or 2, because as in software, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, l find Maya very good and powerful for effects like fur, hair etc creation and like the bundled materials with it. Only with Max 9 has Autodesk added some materials. For quick animation projects l simply use Autodesk 3ds max 9.
Note also, you can get the entire user manuals online for Blender (small size) and 3DS online (very large 3 volume PDFs - eg. one of the pdfs has about 1300 pages to print!)
Hope this helps.

Why not try the open source program Blender - freely available for download at: http://www.blender.org
You can check out some demos on that site or at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruTNnF6Ztg
Major film producers and 3D artists (independent or not) in USA, Canada and elsewhere use Maya, 3DSMax, Lightwave etc and also Blender!

Other software mentioned in wikipedia for crowd simulation etc.
* BlenderPeople, free software for crowd simulation usable with the Blender animation suite
* NetLogo, a free software for multi-agent modeling, simulation, and the like. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
* MASSIVE, the software used in The Lord of the Rings films. http://massivesoftware.com/
* CrowdIT, Crowd tool for 3d studio Max http://www.crowdit.worldofpolygons.com/
* SpirOps Crowd, Crowd tool and AI middleware used in Splinter Cell - Double Agent game. http://www.spirops.com/
* Micro-PedSim, microscopic (multi-agents) pedestrian traffic simulation. http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/research/pedestrian/MicroPedSim/download.htm