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I’m having a serious problem.
Let’s start from the beginning. I installed Windows XP professional a few months ago.
It always worked fine. Not one single problem. And it installed without any problem from the first time.
Fast forward to last week. XP became extremely unstable all of a sudden. It started to reset randomly in the first two minutes after startup. The system was unusable because of this, so I decided to format the HD and do a fresh install of XP. I choose to format the HD because at that time I suspected a Virus attack being responsible for the instability of my OS.
And Guess what! Until now I’ve been unable to re-install Windows XP.
Everything goes well (formatting incl.) until he starts copying the system files to the HD. Most of the time I get a message that he can’t copy some file (seemingly random ones). After a few of those messages (I hit ESC to skip, ENTER to retry doesn’t help) he locks up/ bails out. Sometimes it just locks up before the first error message appears.
I’ve both tried my CD-ROM drive and my CD-RW. I even used a friends copy of XP to try, just to make sure it’s not because of a damaged CD.
Installing my old Windows 98 SE was not a problem!!!! And everything works fine in Win98. Ranging from office 2000 to Ghost Recon and Medal of Honour.
Please help! I have not a single clue about what’s wrong, and how to solve it.
Thanks.
Let’s start from the beginning. I installed Windows XP professional a few months ago.
It always worked fine. Not one single problem. And it installed without any problem from the first time.
Fast forward to last week. XP became extremely unstable all of a sudden. It started to reset randomly in the first two minutes after startup. The system was unusable because of this, so I decided to format the HD and do a fresh install of XP. I choose to format the HD because at that time I suspected a Virus attack being responsible for the instability of my OS.
And Guess what! Until now I’ve been unable to re-install Windows XP.
Everything goes well (formatting incl.) until he starts copying the system files to the HD. Most of the time I get a message that he can’t copy some file (seemingly random ones). After a few of those messages (I hit ESC to skip, ENTER to retry doesn’t help) he locks up/ bails out. Sometimes it just locks up before the first error message appears.
I’ve both tried my CD-ROM drive and my CD-RW. I even used a friends copy of XP to try, just to make sure it’s not because of a damaged CD.
Installing my old Windows 98 SE was not a problem!!!! And everything works fine in Win98. Ranging from office 2000 to Ghost Recon and Medal of Honour.
Please help! I have not a single clue about what’s wrong, and how to solve it.
Thanks.