Michael Grimstead
December 11th 03, 09:26 PM
hi i recently wanted to reinstall windows xp, so i
inserted the windows xp disk and made my cd rom the first
boot device in my bios, upon booting i deleted the
partition then recreated it and full ntfs formatted it (30
gig hard disk), that went fine when formatting had
finished and it tried to setup windows is where the
problems occurred, windows was copying files it gets to
either 28% or 47% it has trouble copying driver.cab and
mf.sys to name but a few. i thought that maybe it was my
disk(genuine) so i borrowed a friends(genuine) pristine
disk reformatted and the problem occurred yet again, i
then thought it could be my dvd drive, so i tried running
it all again using my cd/rw drive, again no joy! i have
tried skipping the files but once it gets into setting up
windows i start running into problems i.e. error messages.
i then took the pc back to my local retailer who said that
my problems were occuring due to my sound card(creative
audigy)and my network card being in while setting up
windows, he removed it and(i think by fluke) windows
installed correctly, however once he was into the desktop
and trying to install my drivers he was running into
errors in the wizards ie "there was a problem installing
the drivers for this hardware the data was invalid" or
something along those lines, i took this to be because he
was using drivers different to the ones i usually use i.e.
the manufacturers drivers. upon returning home i decided
that as i could reformat ok i would reformat and get rid
of the unsigned drivers the tech had put on. However upon
reformatting my problem with the setup occurs even with my
sound card and network card out. please please please if
you know of a cure to this problem then post it here as my
computer is about 2cm away from being stamped on out of
sheer frustration! ps i have been told that a low level
format may solve my problems? thanks for your time
inserted the windows xp disk and made my cd rom the first
boot device in my bios, upon booting i deleted the
partition then recreated it and full ntfs formatted it (30
gig hard disk), that went fine when formatting had
finished and it tried to setup windows is where the
problems occurred, windows was copying files it gets to
either 28% or 47% it has trouble copying driver.cab and
mf.sys to name but a few. i thought that maybe it was my
disk(genuine) so i borrowed a friends(genuine) pristine
disk reformatted and the problem occurred yet again, i
then thought it could be my dvd drive, so i tried running
it all again using my cd/rw drive, again no joy! i have
tried skipping the files but once it gets into setting up
windows i start running into problems i.e. error messages.
i then took the pc back to my local retailer who said that
my problems were occuring due to my sound card(creative
audigy)and my network card being in while setting up
windows, he removed it and(i think by fluke) windows
installed correctly, however once he was into the desktop
and trying to install my drivers he was running into
errors in the wizards ie "there was a problem installing
the drivers for this hardware the data was invalid" or
something along those lines, i took this to be because he
was using drivers different to the ones i usually use i.e.
the manufacturers drivers. upon returning home i decided
that as i could reformat ok i would reformat and get rid
of the unsigned drivers the tech had put on. However upon
reformatting my problem with the setup occurs even with my
sound card and network card out. please please please if
you know of a cure to this problem then post it here as my
computer is about 2cm away from being stamped on out of
sheer frustration! ps i have been told that a low level
format may solve my problems? thanks for your time