Reinstalling Windows XP

[TyKoN]

I'm trying to reinstall Windows XP on a blank hard drive. I have my Windows XP bootable CD, but its kinda old so its somewhat scratched up. Everytime I try to install, it interrrupts and says some file is corrupt and to press any key to continue, which restarts my computer, and I go through the same process again.

The problem is, its not the same file each time. It seems that every time I try, a different file is corrupted. Sometimes it will be an earlier file while other times it gets through the previously corrupt file just fine, but pops up saying some other file is corrupted.

Is there some way that I can make the install retry to copy the file? It's getting really annoying restarting over and over again just because one file is corrupt. I think I must have gone through this about 50 times now.

Thanks for looking. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[hjo3]

I had this happen to me and it turned out the cause wasn't the CD, but bad RAM. You might want to pop in a MemTest CD to check -- couldn't hurt.

 

[lenjack]

Is it saying the file is corrupt or that it could not be copied? If the latter, try:

Set everything to default (no oc).

Use just one stick of ram.

Uninstall and physically disconnect all but 1 optical drive.

Try again and let us know.

 

[TyKoN]

Well I got it to work as far as having it copy over all the installation files, but after it restarts it gives me an error message and a blue screen with something like

STOP: c000123 some file is missing or corrupt

When I reinstall it does the same thing but again the corrupted file is different each time. I've disconnected all but one stick of RAM and I ran memtest86 so I hope my RAM isnt the problem.

 

[TyKoN]

Ok, so I tried reinstalling Windows AGAIN, to try to fix the corruption.

Now it shows the boot screen very briefly.

Then goes to a screen that says:
Setup is restarting.................

Then it flashes a teal-blue screen.

Then it gives me this error

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x000012f (0x00000000 0x00000000)
The system has been shut down.

Can someone please help me, I'm at my wit's end here.

 

[Strebor]

I've managed to get past this type of problem before by taking the CD out when it says it can't copy a file, then putting it back in, after a few tries it usually manages to read the file its missing. Not sure about your blue screen error, but its probably due to the install.

 

[lenjack]

Originally posted by: lenjack
Is it saying the file is corrupt or that it could not be copied? If the latter, try:

Set everything to default (no oc).

Use just one stick of ram.

Uninstall and physically disconnect all but 1 optical drive.

Try again and let us know.

Did you try this?

 

[thepeach]

I had this happen when reinstalling XP and it turned out my CD Drive was dirty. I ran a cleaner and it installed perfectly. If you have a second CD/DVD drive try it.

Good Luck

 

[TyKoN]

Yeah I tried setting everything to default and taking out everything but the necessities but still no luck.

What do you mean by "ran a cleaner" is that some software or did you actually physically clean out the drive?

 

[manowar821]

If all else fails, I would almost consider burning the CD - When you copy CDs, it may read the data better than the install process, thus giving you a clean copy of the disk.

Just a thought, it's worked for me in the past with games. Reads the data better, makes a copy, and then the copy works perfectly.

 

[Matt1970]

Try installing with just 1 stick of ram, main drive and a CD. Remove any external sound card, modem, ethernet or disable them in CMOS.

Matt

 

[Aarondeep]

No chance on getting yourself another copy of the CD? Sounds like either a defective cd-drive or a bad CD.

 

[Snowcatrm]

what do you do when you have a bad cd?

 

[QueBert]

had this problem on my GF's, I fixed it by lowering the memory speed in the bios, I can't say it will work for you, but this is the only thing that would get her XP to install, I believe it was the same stop message you're getting. after I got XP to install I bumped her memory speed back up to full and it's running fine now. Weird but I try not to think about it.

 

[Snowcatrm]

Ive tried to install with this disk on several computers. Its not the computer, it is the cd for sure.

 

[crown711]

can you borrow a win cd from a friend and use your reg.#

 

[orbiter]

I've had this happen with XP Pro. The thing just kept giving me errors on each attempt. The only thing that worked for me was to full format the drive again, sometimes even twice, and make sure the It was being installed on C: New Partition RAW. Mine kept showing C: New partition 1. I can only assume rightly or wrongly that this option was being used as New Partition Raw already had a corrupted part install on it which was giving the errors. It worked though

 

[dealmaster00]

Originally posted by: QueBert
had this problem on my GF's, I fixed it by lowering the memory speed in the bios, I can't say it will work for you, but this is the only thing that would get her XP to install, I believe it was the same stop message you're getting. after I got XP to install I bumped her memory speed back up to full and it's running fine now. Weird but I try not to think about it.

that is really weird