Intalling XP

[Mr_Threepwood]

Hi, I've recently been having trouble reformatting my computer. Originally I had problems getting all 3 SATA drives to be recognized, now I finally have it recognizing all 3. After it formats the C drive to NTFS file system it proceeds to install windows from the CD. It gets stuck on Perftype.exe, and a bunch after that. So my question is, is this most likely related to the CD being corrupt, or a hardware issue?


Also after each time it fails do i need to reformat the C drive or can i just skip the formatting?

 

[talldude123]

i'd say that your CD is stratched

try to just get an illegal version of XP off file sharing, or call windows, and maybe you can get a deal off an XP cd

 

[dnoch]

A very similar thing happened to me when I tried to reformat my computer a while ago. When I looked at my disk, I noticed it had a funny mark on it. I just burned a new copy of the disk, and then it worked fine.

 

[EricB]

scratched disc or cheap cd rom. they are making some cheesy cd rom these days. they can't read files off of cds or dvds