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I'm trying to install a fresh copy of Windows XP, Home Edition on my freshly-formated, scanned (with no errors) hard drive. I tried the exact same hard drive in another computer, and it worked perfectly. Same install. What happens is, when I try to start the install, it tells me that C: is corrupt and setup will now quit. I KNOW the hard drive is OK, and I've formatted it (FAT32) since it changed computers (for about the 60th time). I'm running out of ideas, and my worst fear is that it's the motherboard. Any ideas?
Yes, I've already searched the forum for a similar problem, however none of the cases I fount had a hard drive that was actually WORKING with the exact same installation just minutes before the switch. I'm baffledmig
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Yes, it's coming up in the BIOS, and the CD/RW and HDD are both on the same cable, HD is master, CD/RW is slave. I'm running setup from the windows XP CD.
If it makes any difference, I've also had problems recently with the floppy. Sometimes when running the boot disk it will say something like 'ERROR LOADING .exe FILE,' or something like that. I don't know if that's relevant or not....
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ok, this is odd. I just got this error when trying to boot from the CD:
CDBOOT: Memory Overflow errorThis is starting to look like some kind of freak motherboard problem. Someone please tell me I'm wrong :(
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When you change first boot device to cd rom and boot to the xp cd, have you tried deleting all partitions and then recreating and installing on a new partition using the xp cd? Not a boot disk but the xp cd.
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yes, yes. But when I do that, it gets close to finished, and then tells me that there is some error with the Hard drive. I forget what it is exactly, but it tells me to check the cables and stuff like that.
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The FAT32 thing is not a good idea. I would just go with NTFS and see what happens.
Are you sure the CMOS is working (battery good)? The OS may be writing to the CMOS, only to try to read it and get data that is inconsistent. CMOS is easy to mess up - it is very sensitive to static especially.
If you can, also run one of those motherboard diagnostics.
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Yes, I agree with Larry. It's worth checking into. If you are installing WinXP for the first time and since you currently have 512, did you by any chance upgrade your RAM. I've had many instances where, during the upgrade process of Windows XP on a machine requiring Memory upgrade, the new memory actually caused HDD read and/or write errors. I'm currently trying to determine what is actually causing this error.
If you upgraded your memory, try removing or putting the memory configuration back to a it's original configuration (i.e prior to the upgrade).
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