installing XP Professional

[MaiDias]

I have had several difficulting with Windows XP. After
trying to reinstall, Windows determine that my C drive was
corrupt and could not install -- I then triel to install
on the D drive (partitioned). I get an error message that
states "can not copy the file esscli.dl_". I browsed the
Windows XP CD, found, but it won't recognize it. Why is
this?

[Rob Schneider]

MaiDias wrote:

> I have had several difficulting with Windows XP. After
> trying to reinstall, Windows determine that my C drive was
> corrupt and could not install -- I then triel to install
> on the D drive (partitioned). I get an error message that
> states "can not copy the file esscli.dl_". I browsed the
> Windows XP CD, found, but it won't recognize it. Why is
> this?

Suggestion:

1. you need to get to the bottom of why the c: disk is corrupt. I
would recommend you not proceed with XP installation until you
understand and fix that.
2. based on your description of the problem, odds are the CD is dirty
or flawed. Suggest you give it a good clean with a soft cloth.

It also could be the problem of our C: drive is also affecting the CD
drive; especially if both devices are connected to the same drive
controller.

[Jef Charlier]

Yesterday, I installed windows xp home om my old PC.
The first trials didn't go at all,
after a looong while .. it worked ..

1)
The bios setup for your hard disk must match 100% what's indicated on your
hard drive ..
cylinders heads sectors = x Gbytes

On older PC's this might be wrong. Win95, 98, Me didn't care about it
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314057
I think older PC-bios couldn't handle great numbers of cylinders so they did
some tricky false counting.
With XP it must be correct.

So never update old win95, 98, Me PC's with XP before a full back-up.
Or use partition magic 8 to do setup on a new free partition of 1 Gb,
keeping your old OS.


2) partition >= 1 GB

3) ( sometimes ) repair hard disk bootable sector with xp bootfix
before windows XP this was done with FDISK /MBR

4) after all, using the cd-rom XP home of my new Dell-pc,
it will only work 30 days on my old,
because i would have to register it.
The PC goes to family so, have to buy a license when XP seems ok and
speedy on my old PC.

- Jef

"MaiDias" > wrote in message
...
> I have had several difficulting with Windows XP. After
> trying to reinstall, Windows determine that my C drive was
> corrupt and could not install -- I then triel to install
> on the D drive (partitioned). I get an error message that
> states "can not copy the file esscli.dl_". I browsed the
> Windows XP CD, found, but it won't recognize it. Why is
> this?

[E. Barry Bruyea]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:42:21 -0700, "MaiDias" >
wrote:

>I have had several difficulting with Windows XP. After
>trying to reinstall, Windows determine that my C drive was
>corrupt and could not install -- I then triel to install
>on the D drive (partitioned). I get an error message that
>states "can not copy the file esscli.dl_". I browsed the
>Windows XP CD, found, but it won't recognize it. Why is
>this?


I had the same problem with upgrading ME to WinXP Pro. I solved it by
copying the cd to the HD and installing from there. It worked
perfectly.