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Oh no! XP installation DISASTER

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Accipiter22

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OK, so I have a 7 year old gateway that's never really been reformatted or anything. It's running sluggishly yada yada yada, I decide it might be time to format the hard drive and reinstall XP. I have the latest drivers installed for my mobo, and all that. I boot from the XP Pro cd, and format the partition (there's only 1, it's a 20 gig hard drive 🙂, and then start the installation process. It tells me "XP is copying files needed for installation" or whatever.

Here's where this thing turns into the Hindenburg. I start getting errors such as "oembios.sys can not be copied from the cd press F3 to cancel installation (I think it was F3), enter to try again, or ESC to continue. Installation may not be able to complete if you skip this file" I skip it, because I already formatted the hard drive so there's no going back. I figure it's just one file...THEN I get that message about 50-60 more times. K6.sys K7.sys a bunch of file names I can't remember, I have to skip a ton of em.

THEN it actually completes that, reboots and starts the installation process....that's when everything screeches to a halt and I get a cyclic redundancy error and the installation stops. I try a few more times and the same thing happens. I try restarting installation, but I get those same errors where I have to skip files, and the same cyclic redundancy error.


Is my XP cd just shot? I tried polishing it but get the same errors.



My CD was just shot. I borrowed a copy from a guy at work, using his Dell recovery cd and it worked fine! Thanks for the help everyone!
 
If you hold the cd upto the light, can you see lots of marks on it?
Also, no harm in running memtest for a few hours just to make sure RAM is ok.
When you do clean a cd, do it from the middle to the outer edge - NOT round in circles.

 
As noted, it wouldn't hurt to test the memory. Most likely though, it's either the CD or the CDROM drive. If the memory tests OK, I'd replace the CDROM drive. If that doesn't work, you either need a new XP disk, or you can try copying the XP CD. The copying process will often fix partially readable sections of the disk. Gateway will likely replace your original CD at low cost, too, if you ask.

Your Gateway can't be seven years old, though, since XP didn't come up until late 2001.
 
My friend ran into this exact same issue once, a long time ago. I seem to remember holding down 'enter' for a few seconds and then the file would be read correctly.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
As noted, it wouldn't hurt to test the memory. Most likely though, it's either the CD or the CDROM drive. If the memory tests OK, I'd replace the CDROM drive. If that doesn't work, you either need a new XP disk, or you can try copying the XP CD. The copying process will often fix partially readable sections of the disk. Gateway will likely replace your original CD at low cost, too, if you ask.

Your Gateway can't be seven years old, though, since XP didn't come up until late 2001.
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you're right, it's 6 now that I Think of it..

Originally posted by: dealmaster00
My friend ran into this exact same issue once, a long time ago. I seem to remember holding down 'enter' for a few seconds and then the file would be read correctly.
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I'll have to try that again...




The CD-Rom was working moments before I decided to reformat, so i'm assuming it's not that...
 
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