XP INSTALL FAILED, HAVE BEEN TRYING TO INSTALL FOR OVER A MONTH, HELP PLEASE!!
CHARLES HARRISON
I have been trying to install MS Windows XP Home Edition
on a new computer I assembled from all new components for
over a month now. I was getting this message:
Error: Installation Failed: D:\i386\asms, Error Message:
The request could not be performed because of an I/O
device error.
Fatal Error: One of the components Windows needs to
continue setup could not be installed. The request could
not be performed because of an I/O device error.
I started changing components, Memory, another new hard
drive, video card, removed parts like modem, that it
didn't need, kept changing parts and restarting, get to
the same spot, same error as above. After a few days of
this I smelled something getting hot, and the computer
shutdown and would not restart. Smoked it!!
Ordered new motherboard, case, and power supply, put it
all together again and come up with same error, over and
over.
Bought a Computer Builders Windows XP C/D, it boots to the
C/D drive and loads something for 5-10 minutes then stops
on a screen that looks and works like the old DOS
system, with: E:\i386\SYSTEM32. I can set it to:
E:\setup, hit enter and a install screen comes up, the
mouse pointer even works, point to install, and it just
sets there, nothing. How do I use this computer builders
C/D?
I would like to be able to use Windows XP.
Any advance help would be appreciated.
THANK YOU
CHARLES
Michael Stevens
"CHARLES HARRISON" <sam1...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have been trying to install MS Windows XP Home Edition
> on a new computer I assembled from all new components for
> over a month now. I was getting this message:
>
> Error: Installation Failed: D:\i386\asms, Error Message:
> The request could not be performed because of an I/O
> device error.
You need to use the original CD, this is the error message you get from a
bad burn copy of the XP CD.
>
> Fatal Error: One of the components Windows needs to
> continue setup could not be installed. The request could
> not be performed because of an I/O device error.
>
> I started changing components, Memory, another new hard
> drive, video card, removed parts like modem, that it
> didn't need, kept changing parts and restarting, get to
> the same spot, same error as above. After a few days of
> this I smelled something getting hot, and the computer
> shutdown and would not restart. Smoked it!!
>
> Ordered new motherboard, case, and power supply, put it
> all together again and come up with same error, over and
> over.
>
> Bought a Computer Builders Windows XP C/D, it boots to the
> C/D drive and loads something for 5-10 minutes then stops
> on a screen that looks and works like the old DOS
> system, with: E:\i386\SYSTEM32. I can set it to:
> E:\setup, hit enter and a install screen comes up, the
> mouse pointer even works, point to install, and it just
> sets there, nothing. How do I use this computer builders
> C/D?
Never heard of this version, is it from Microsoft, and does it have a
holographic label? What does it say on the label?
--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
xpn...@michaelstevenstech.com
http://michaelstevenstech.com
CHARLES HARRISON
Microsoft OEM System Builder Program:
www.microsoft.com/oem. For System Builder use only in
preinstallation of Windows XP.
The first C/D I used is MS Windows XP Home Edition with
Certificate of Authenticity and all the 25 numbers/letters
to regester it if I ever get it installed on something to
use it on.
CHARLES
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>
charles harrison
Microsoft.
CHARLES
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>
Michael Stevens
> The C/D has: Microsoft Windows XP OEM Preinstallation Kit.
> Microsoft OEM System Builder Program:
> www.microsoft.com/oem. For System Builder use only in
> preinstallation of Windows XP.
>
> The first C/D I used is MS Windows XP Home Edition with
> Certificate of Authenticity and all the 25 numbers/letters
> to regester it if I ever get it installed on something to
> use it on.
>
> CHARLES
Try copying the XP home versions i386 folder to the hard drive, boot from a
Win 98/Me startup disk and run setup from <cd-rom>:\ i386\winnt.exe
CHARLES HARRISON
harddrive,then run setup from E:\i386\winnt.exe\setup.exe,
is that right? will try.
thank you
CHARLES
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>
Michael Stevens
> Boot with me startup and copy i386 folder to
> harddrive,then run setup from E:\i386\winnt.exe\setup.exe,
> is that right? will try.
>
> thank you
>
> CHARLES
>
>
That's right, you might want to load smartdrv.exe before the copy of the CD.
See the link below for speciakl boot disk with smartdrv.
http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html
CHARLES HARRISON
MICHAEL
Copying i386 to the hard drive didn't work, when you boot
with 98 or ME it creates a small temporary drive C: on
drive C, then can't find drive C:\, because it is looking
for Fat or Fat32 file system, not NTFS. Tried to boot with
95, it could not find C/D drive.
I used the System Builders Preinstallation Windows XP C/D,
it boots to the C/D drive and says its looking for
hardware and preparing system to run XP then loads
something for about 5 minutes then stops on a screen that
looks and works like the old DOS system, with: D:\i386
\SYSTEM32. I copied D:\i386 files to C:\ drive and it
copied several hundred files to C:\, I guess then stopped
on the H's, and said it was out of space on the C:\
drive, C:\ drive is 60gb hard drive. I was working on
this most of the night, so I think I will go take a nap,
and forget this for a while.
THANK YOU
CHARLES
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