Ok, so here's the situation I had:
I found this old 2GB Hd lying around in my room, and I thought it would be a nice drive to hold some songs on. So I installed it as a slave drive, and it wouldn't load up. It kept going to this one screen with 9.7 or something (I'm guessing an old version of an operating system or dos or something). So I take it out and try loading my regular hard drive (60GB), and it locks up in dos mode with the message "nfsdr (nsdfr i dunno) is missing" or something like that.
While this is going on, I change my bios to read the actual hard drives, then I even tried "write to zeroes" and installing winXP again. After I formatted, it gets to the point where it is "installing windows" and I get the following errors:
sxs.dll: syntax error in manifest or policy file E:\I386\asms\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS\CONTROLS.MAN" on line 0.
Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message : Manifest Parse Error : Invalid at the top level of the document.
Fatal Error:
(same ish) w/ a manifest parse error.
I went out and bought a new hard drive (Western Digital 160GB) and I tried loading XP on it, and the same errors popped up at the same location.
Also, to add insult to injury, one of my 512MB RAM sticks doesn't work anymore. So I went from having 1GB to 512.
My setup is a p4 2.4 GHz, ECS mobo 533 fsb(cpu/mobo combo from frys in 2002), geforce4 ti4200, 60/160gb hds, cd-rw, dvd, 512 ram (formerly 1gb).
Generic tower w/ a raidmax 350W psu.
What could be causing these errors? Is my HD blown? could it be RAM issues? Mobo Issues? Could my winXp cd be bad/scratched up?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks,
EDIT - I tested my hard drive in my brothers computer as a slave drive, and it seems to be working fine. I lost all my info from doing the "write to zeroes" though. Bummer.
Peter
I found this old 2GB Hd lying around in my room, and I thought it would be a nice drive to hold some songs on. So I installed it as a slave drive, and it wouldn't load up. It kept going to this one screen with 9.7 or something (I'm guessing an old version of an operating system or dos or something). So I take it out and try loading my regular hard drive (60GB), and it locks up in dos mode with the message "nfsdr (nsdfr i dunno) is missing" or something like that.
While this is going on, I change my bios to read the actual hard drives, then I even tried "write to zeroes" and installing winXP again. After I formatted, it gets to the point where it is "installing windows" and I get the following errors:
sxs.dll: syntax error in manifest or policy file E:\I386\asms\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS\CONTROLS.MAN" on line 0.
Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message : Manifest Parse Error : Invalid at the top level of the document.
Fatal Error:
(same ish) w/ a manifest parse error.
I went out and bought a new hard drive (Western Digital 160GB) and I tried loading XP on it, and the same errors popped up at the same location.
Also, to add insult to injury, one of my 512MB RAM sticks doesn't work anymore. So I went from having 1GB to 512.
My setup is a p4 2.4 GHz, ECS mobo 533 fsb(cpu/mobo combo from frys in 2002), geforce4 ti4200, 60/160gb hds, cd-rw, dvd, 512 ram (formerly 1gb).
Generic tower w/ a raidmax 350W psu.
What could be causing these errors? Is my HD blown? could it be RAM issues? Mobo Issues? Could my winXp cd be bad/scratched up?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks,
EDIT - I tested my hard drive in my brothers computer as a slave drive, and it seems to be working fine. I lost all my info from doing the "write to zeroes" though. Bummer.
Peter
