Setup Stops Responding Upon Restart After You Install Windows XP to a Partition on an IA64 Computer

When you install Windows XP to a partition on an IA64 computer that uses the GUID partition table (GPT) partitioning scheme, and you then restart the computer, the Windows XP Setup program may stop responding.

This behavior can occur if the computer has more than 23 partitions.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

GUID is the abbreviation for globally unique identifier.