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My friend gave me a crappy free emachine and I'm reinstalling windows on it. After formatting the hard drive (NTFS) it goes to install windows, and it comes up with the error "The file "asms" on Windows XP Professional CD-ROM is needed" and asks me to locate where the file should be. Choosing a location and clicking ok does nothing, so I don't even know where to start. What do you guys suggest I do?
You need to do more then formatting, let us know if this dos'nt work.
WIPE OUT
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html
Freeware.
WIPE OUT: as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those
times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have
left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data
from the Hard Drive.DIRECTIONS
1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk, make sure the bios is set to boot from floppy 1st.
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBRPress Enter.
Now run fdisk to set up partitions.
When done, reboot & format.
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More brilliance from M$:
"CAUSE
This issue may occur if the Setup program cannot communicate with the CD-ROM drive."To find out if it's on the CD:
attrib /s r:\asms*.*
Likey it is there but you're getting read errors.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2Go
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I get stuck on really easy things. I looked up how to do that FDISK thing, but when I type in FDISK in the command prompt it acts like it's not a command. Any suggestions?
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Got to use a boot disk & make sure the bios is set to boot from floppy 1st.
Extensive help here
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/delete_nondos_partition.htm
http://www.lurkhere.com/forum/DCForumID19/23.htmlhttp://fdisk.radified.com/
http://www.bootdisk.com/txtfiles/hdd.txt
http://www.computerhope.com/sfdisk3.htm
http://www.pcguide.com/proc/setup/hdd.htm
http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP
http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/fdisk_scr.html
http://www.compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/index.html
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/weendoggy/index.htm
http://www.hexff.com/win98_install.html
http://home.pacbell.net/dbk4297/fdiskformat.html
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"when I type in FDISK in the command prompt it acts like it's not a command."
Define "acts like".
Better yet, what does it *SAY*?
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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'FDISK' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
It said this when I booted in DOS with the bootable floppy disk also. I'll check out the web sites and see what I can do.
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'FDISK' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
That is an NT/XP message.
The DOS equivalent is:
Bad command or file name
As per juhnw, you may need something stronger than fdisk. But until you try fdisk, you won't know.
Either way, you'll need fdisk to create a new partition.
Get a 98se boot maker here:
www.bootdisk.com
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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the windows 98se bootdisk worked with the FDISK command. I'll try and run every thing now I'll be back if I need help thanks a lot for the tips and the web sites.
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Got windows up and running now. Thanks agian every one learned some stuff I never knew about.
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If you booted with a win98 or WinME boot disk to perform the installation from dos, it installs a temporary ram drive on d:\ and your cd probably on e:\ (or some higher drive letter if you have partitions).
Then, once the initial files are copied over and it performs the reboot to finish the installation, the ramdrive is no longer there and all the drive letters have changed, i.e., the cd will now be d:\ or whatever letter is available after your hard disk partitions are assigned. If you change the path when prompted for the location the "asms" file to the new location of the cdrom, i.e., d:\i386 (where it was e:\i386 when the installation started), it should continue on.
Try this and see if it works.
Lorri
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