Paul T
December 11th 03, 09:27 PM
Michael:
I know this is a long shot, but I recently experienced
exactly the same behaviour with an XP install on a brand
new hard drive. I had switched brands of hard drive. I
was used to IBM's, which, if used as the only drive on an
ide cable, simply require the jumpers to be set as
master. On the new drive (a Western Digital) there's
actaully a different (horizontal) position for the jumper
if the drive is alone on its cable. Believe it or not,
this error caused exactly the behaviour you've
experienced. Triple check the jumper setting on your
drive.
** Not sure how the tech got it to load, so this may not
be the issue, but worth a try. Also make absolutley sure
you memory chips are firmly seated.**
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>.
>
I know this is a long shot, but I recently experienced
exactly the same behaviour with an XP install on a brand
new hard drive. I had switched brands of hard drive. I
was used to IBM's, which, if used as the only drive on an
ide cable, simply require the jumpers to be set as
master. On the new drive (a Western Digital) there's
actaully a different (horizontal) position for the jumper
if the drive is alone on its cable. Believe it or not,
this error caused exactly the behaviour you've
experienced. Triple check the jumper setting on your
drive.
** Not sure how the tech got it to load, so this may not
be the issue, but worth a try. Also make absolutley sure
you memory chips are firmly seated.**
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>.
>