Upgrade to XP aborted - now General Protection Fault

[Felecha]

Something went wrong - the upgrade from W2K to XP hit an error - said it failed to copy ntldr to C:\ntldr. I retried, error again (CRC)

So I Exited and rebooted and now after the DMI Pool Data message I go to a General Protection Fault screen with lots of hex on it

Help???

I know some stuff but not enough here

 

[tontod]

Not sure if this would cause the problem, but check your cd to see if there is any dust/scratches - clean it if necessary.

 

[theMan]

why are you even upgrading. i did that once. i did not like xp at all. it was slower, and less stable. and, it kept corrupting my HD. give it up.

 

[Felecha]

I have found XP to have at least a few advantages, and we use it at work all the time and I often bring my work home (I'm a programmer) and this is the company MSDN DVD with XP on it. We have a few extra licenses left so I want it on the home box. Thank goodness I have my laptop home this weekend so I can get on the forum.

 

[Felecha]

Boy am I lucky!!!

I googled to a site that had EXACTLY the GPF message and it said it's due to a corrupted ntldr. Makes perfect sense. So I dug out the old W2K CD and got into its Recovery Console and copied from the CD to the root of C:\ and it reboots fine.

And I cleaned the DVD, too. Maybe it really was that. I found a big smear on it (this is from the MSDN kit at work). Looked like a thin film of jam or something.

Thanks

 

[MobiusPizza]

Yeah. Your installation error message was CRC error, which means the file is corrupted due to bad source disk.

 

[Felecha]

yes, I see that. I remember CRC's from school. but I didn't expect it to leave the corrupted file in place when I told it I wanted to exit