Hi, I'll try to make this as brief as possible. I'm having a problem with my week old Dell Dimension 4600, Pentium 4 at 2.4Ghz, 256MB memory, 40GB hd, Win XP Home. On of our kids tried to install a Win XP compatable Baseball 2003 game and it crashed the system with the BSOD and the stop error, I didn't log the error code. Now Win XP is having fits and is crashing the stop errors and the BSOD.
Using the recovery CD which came with the system I decided to do a clean install of Win XP, the only software on the system was AOL version 8. I found two partitions set up from Dell. The first one was not labelled and was using the FAT file system and 39MB of disk space. The second partition was labelled "C" with the NTFS file system and about 37GB of disk space. There was about 8MB of unpartitioned disk space also.
I decide to delete the existing partitions and create the first partition about 2GB with NTFS for Win XP. The second partition was the remaining disk space with NTFS. I formatted them and started installing Win XP from the Dell supplied CD. I started getting errors about Win XP setup not being able to copy a file from the CD to the hard drive, press enter to retry or ESC to skip the file. Pressing enter usually worked, but not every time. I also got a message saying the file "xxxxx.xxx" is not part of Win XP installation a few times.
By the time the install reaches 80%, sometimes sooner, I get the BSOD with a stop error. Do you thing I have to create the 39MB FAT partiton to get pat this? Any suggestions ar much appreciated!! Thanks in advance.
Using the recovery CD which came with the system I decided to do a clean install of Win XP, the only software on the system was AOL version 8. I found two partitions set up from Dell. The first one was not labelled and was using the FAT file system and 39MB of disk space. The second partition was labelled "C" with the NTFS file system and about 37GB of disk space. There was about 8MB of unpartitioned disk space also.
I decide to delete the existing partitions and create the first partition about 2GB with NTFS for Win XP. The second partition was the remaining disk space with NTFS. I formatted them and started installing Win XP from the Dell supplied CD. I started getting errors about Win XP setup not being able to copy a file from the CD to the hard drive, press enter to retry or ESC to skip the file. Pressing enter usually worked, but not every time. I also got a message saying the file "xxxxx.xxx" is not part of Win XP installation a few times.
By the time the install reaches 80%, sometimes sooner, I get the BSOD with a stop error. Do you thing I have to create the 39MB FAT partiton to get pat this? Any suggestions ar much appreciated!! Thanks in advance.