xp wont install properly
mel system new processor, I processor fitted. the computer V9400 CD-RW service pk 1
had the first to try to Sometimes it report that previous methods of further with setup minutes, all! the it. Drives, 5 CDs 1 win fault AG200 am fast from a cure it
copy the contents of the Cd onto HDD, then try to run setup from HDD.
It could be an IDE connector where the CD drive is plugged into, it could be the cd drive, it could be the cd.
Whenever I do a copy from DOS, it always stops on a file. Fortunately, I have 2 Cd dsrives in my computer and 2 identical Win XP installation CDs. When it halts on a file, I either switch to the other Cd, or switch to the other cd drive, then it halts again, and I repeat. I might have the same problem as you. I have also had Win XP installtion halt on a file, but then had no problems when I put the CD in my other CD drive.
CD drives are EXTREMELY RANDOM, I don't care what anybody says, they are a poo technology. The only reason why I have a stable reliably system while using CD drives is because I have 2 drives. And I have another computer that I switch to, that also has 2 cd drives!! I also ave a load of different media. One of my reliable drives is unable to write to 800MB CDs. Yet the less reliable drive that tends to halt during XP installations, can write to 800MB discs. They all halt during DOS Copys.
Firstly, this is a problem with CDs created by the company, and thus only they can know the solution...
If computers were 2000 years old that'd be a 2000 year question! Seriously, it all depends...
It took me a long time to even get CD drives that worked. New drives didn't seem to be supported, and I had to download firmware to get them supported. I went through loasd of poo. After wasting loads of money, I just bought about 3 Cd-r drives off of ebay, and they all worked. Still, the only one that writes to 800MB discs is a DVD RW that wasn't from ebay, and it seems that I need an 800MB CD to take a slipstreamed Win XP sp2.
If after you sdwap the CD drom one drive to another during the installation, it still fails, then your problem is different to mine. Probably simple. Probably just a bad CD. But there's a good chance that if you swap the CD from one drive to another, or make a duplicate of the CD and keep swapping one Cd for the other one, then it will work. It is random, you're right, and therefore each time you swap (either Cd in other drive, or other cd in drive, it halts at a different file. Thus, you can get setup completed!!)
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