XP Home/Pro install problems

[dexter195]

hi,

i have xp home on my computer at the moment. i want to upgrade from ide to s-ata harddrive. ive tried installing using the xp home cd that i bought. i keep on getting errors saying that certain files cannot be loaded up. i have tried it on an ide harddrive and the same problem occurs. the disk is perfect. i have installed it before using the same disk fully onto an ide harddrive . ive copied all the files from the cd to the harddrive with no problems at all. ive also used another xp home cd and the same files didnt load up. i then used an xp pro disk and different files didnt load up.

i know have two xp home disks with sp2 on them. when one file didnt load up i put in the other cd but the same file didnt load up.

ive tried it on a single ide harddrive that has been totally formatted and it gives me the same problems.


ive also tried this with different cd drives, ranging from basic cd-roms to dvd writers.

could this be a problem with my motherboard?

thanks for the help.

 

[KiloZ]

If you created the second XP Home disk from the copy you put on the hard-drive, copied from the original disk, then if there was a problem with the original/first disk that problem would have been duplicated as well.
Have you tried installing to a different PC to see if there is a problem with the installation CDs?

All great accomplishments were once considered impossible.

 

[allteltec]

Bad Ram will also sometimes give these types of errors on and install. Check your Ram memory.

 

[Cindy1]

I would try and wash the cd with warm soapy water and totally dry it. Then restart it again and see if it works. If it stops at the same spot I would say you have a scrape on the cd. You could try another disk drive. That is why when I by expensive sofftware I copy it and put the original away. That way who cares if I trash the copy. I also have a program that I swear by that is called "Ghost" made by Norton. It will create a mirror image of your drive disk to disk. There are many ways to do it and it is very fast it is well worth the price.
Hope this helps,
Cindy

 

[linney]

RAM has already been mentioned, another "gotchas" is Bios virus scanning running.

Here's a couple of articles which include a general checklist to help if you are having problems.

HOW TO: Prepare to Upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition to Windows XP(Q316639)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q316/6/39.asp

310064 - HOW TO: Troubleshoot Windows XP Problems During Installation When You Upgrade from Windows 98 or Windows Me

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310064&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

224826 - Troubleshooting Text-Mode Setup Problems on ACPI Computers

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;224826&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[dexter195]

the 2 xp home cds used are origionals that are in perfect condition. the files will copy over when i transfer them onto my harddrive when i'm runnin in xp but will jot transfer when i'm setting up xp-home.

i'm installin a fresh copy of xp onto a formatted harddrive to ntfs with no partitions on it.

i checked the bios and there are no virus scans running. i have 2 ram chips (512mb)and tried one of them at a time and ended up with the same problem.

 

[linney]

If you can make a smaller FAT32 partition and copy all the i386 files from the CD to it you maybe able to run Setup from there?

307848 - HOW TO: Start Setup from MS-DOS in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307848&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH