winxp pro sp2 install problems

[Killermonk]

ok thanks ill try that. the error i get is this:

The file _______ was not copied correctly. The file setup placed on your hard drive was not a vaild windows xp system image. If you are installing from a cd there may be a problem with the cd.

always happens at 85%.

anyways gonna go try the win98 thing.

 

[microsoftne]

Fdisk the Hdd and try a new cd-rom... but more than likely it is the hdd...

 

[EricB]

You can yank that HDD out and put it as a slave in another machine and try a 3rd party disk managment tool...
or, just throw it out the window. lol j/k

use powermax to delete it (with the quick formar option) ans you might have got a bootsector virus. it that don't work you need a new cd rom. when powermax formats it, it will also let you know if the drive is bad

powermax is in my signature

 

[Killermonk]

ok i completly did the format with the powermanx thing on one of my drives with the other ones unplugged from the power. then tried to install windows. There is a problem with something idk. Is there a possibility that a virus could get in my bios?

 

[Osiris]

Is this just an xp disk or is it slipstreamed with sp2?

 

[EricB]

I'm thinking scratched disc or bad cd rom. they are making them really cheap these days

 

[Killermonk]

its an official xp disc with sp2. not scratched at all i have also tried other copies of it too.

 

[Osiris]

Do you have 2 Hdd's in there? Did you try swapping them?

 

[Killermonk]

I have tried installing it on 2 diff hdd's. Making sure only one of them is plugged in at a time. Once today I got to 99% with an older version of windows xp and got this error once it hit 100%: "Line 1267 of hivedef.inf is corrupted" and i've only got that far with a scratched disc...

 

[EricB]

if powermax didn't take those corrupted errors away (I encounter this on about 7-8 computers), and your disc isn't scratched, then you got a cheap cd rom. I experience this on 4 people computers that I was fixing. I would get a cd-rom out of the garage and use it to install windows