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Nothing worked!
Obviously the CD is knackered...
I tried everything you, and a few others, suggested with no luck what so ever.
I basically gave up in the end...
So I decided to leave the old hard disk alone and load XP on to the new empty hard disk. Everything worked fine till about half way trough. Full stop!!! Can't install one of the sys files.
Got to go out and buy myself a new Windows XP CD today.
Thanks for the help thoug, and if you got any bright ideas before lunch I'll be happy to give it a go. My PC is wasted anyway.
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Posted: 2003-08-21 09:01:58
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Sorry to hear that. If the disk is really faulty then microsoft should replace it for you free of charge. I had a similar problem with an Office XP disk.
edit: although thinking further... if its an OEM disk that came from the pc manufacturer then you may need to go back to them instead.
did your pc not come with recovery disks? these are usually disks that completely replace the hard drive as it was when you bought the pc without the need to actually install windows or anything. Sony do them on laptops and desktops and I think quite a few other manufacturers do too.
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[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2003-08-21 08:29 ]
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Posted: 2003-08-21 09:21:28
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@tranquil: It won't be a violation of a lincense agreement to borrow someone elses CD to install as long as you use your own key.
Have you tried copying the i386 directory to the harddisk and then starting the install from DOS using winnt command?
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The "can't find windows" error can be caused by incorrectly edited boot.ini file. You can boot into recovery console (using the installation CD), and edit the file (located C:\boot.ini) If WinXP is installed on the first disk/first partition there should be a line like this:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
Note, that while there is no editor in the recovery console, you can use the console commands to redetect the system, or edit the file on another machine and copy it using a floppy disk. You can also copy any missing operating system files from the CDrom (they will be automatically decompressed)
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[ This Message was edited by: wrath000 on 2003-08-21 09:02 ]
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Posted: 2003-08-21 09:55:35
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I am about to turn potty! It can't find the modem now! Everything else works perfectly well apart from internet!
Anyway, thanks for all yoyr help guys!
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Posted: 2003-08-25 19:38:00
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Glad to see you are sorting it all out... almost.
Modem? whats that? thought they were all in a museum now!
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Posted: 2003-08-25 20:16:46
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If you are still having problems installing XP after you got a working copy it could me your ram programs write to different addresses so some progs will work and some wont that’s why when you install XP when it writes to the f**ked one you get that message if you got 2 ram sticks first earth yourself then take 1 stick out try it and if that still don’t work try the other 1
If you need a different XP key then get a keygen from one of the peer 2 peer progs
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Posted: 2003-08-25 20:53:00
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On 2003-08-25 20:16:46, masseur wrote:
Glad to see you are sorting it all out... almost.
Modem? whats that? thought they were all in a museum now!
Sorry... ISDN-card.
@HellFire
Everything work problem free apart from my internet connection.
The problem now is to get the machine to find the hardware for the ISDN card.
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Posted: 2003-08-27 14:14:43
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you are talking about ISDN card... what type of card? PCI, PC Card or?
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Posted: 2003-08-27 14:23:30
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If you PC can't find the ISDN card, I wouldn't rule out hardware damage. Most, if not all ISDN cards are Plug-n-Play, so as long as it's not damaged it should be found by Windows even if Windows does not have the correct drivers (in which case it will be installed as "unknown PCI device" or something like that)
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Posted: 2003-08-27 14:33:02
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Guys, thatks for all your patience and support.
I'll get a new ISDN-card tomorrow. I've given up on the thing! They are not that steep anyway.
Any spesific ones any of you can recomend?
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Posted: 2003-08-27 19:47:00
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