i am installing xp onto a formatted hardrive. i formatted
the drive using a 98 boot disk and fdisk and i am having
problems, when installing xp from the cdrom i keep getting
errors saying that a driver or file could not be copied.
the error codes i am getting are 7 and 4 and they switch
up. sometimes when i try to install the program i get the
error 7 and then i will try again and i will get a error
code 4. i need help and this computer is driving nuts.
please help what am i doing wrong.

Hi, Travis.

As Rifleman says, just boot from the CD and let WinXP Setup partition and
format the drive for you. If you want to create or format additional
partitions after installation, use WinXP's Disk Management to do that.

The DOS program FDISK only partitions the drive, you know. To format the
drive, you would need to use Format.exe after the partitions are created.

If you are using Format.exe from MS-DOS , then you are limiting yourself to
FAT32. Unless you plan to install Win9x/ME on this computer, there's no
need to cling to FAT. Let WinXP Setup format the drive NTFS. This has
several advantages, including greater security, both in the sense of
preventing unauthorized access and in the sense of less chance of corrupting
your files.

RC
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"travis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:09a201c35ceb$164e3540$(E-Mail Removed)...
> i am installing xp onto a formatted hardrive. i formatted
> the drive using a 98 boot disk and fdisk and i am having
> problems, when installing xp from the cdrom i keep getting
> errors saying that a driver or file could not be copied.
> the error codes i am getting are 7 and 4 and they switch
> up. sometimes when i try to install the program i get the
> error 7 and then i will try again and i will get a error
> code 4. i need help and this computer is driving nuts.
> please help what am i doing wrong.

R. C.,
> I have a few questions. The reason i used the fdisk, was
becuase i was
> having a lot of problems with windows xp that was
already installed on the
> computer. I could start the computer it would keep on
restarting and
giving
> the options for safe mode and all the others then i
would choose an
opotion
> and it would try and open and then just reboot and take
me to the same
> screen. when i tried to repair the os using the cd it
would not let me get
> past the point were it loaded the dll's it would give me
an error code of
4.
> so i decided to format the computer and try and start
over. To do this i
> downloaded a 98 bootdisk that had fdisk on it. i used
the bootdisk to boot
> the computer and then deleted the partition and created
a new one. i
> restarted the computer and loaded the win xp install cd
and now i am at my
> provlem. i am doing something wrong. the win xp has
already gone through
and
> reformatted the hdd to ntfs and is at the point of
copying files. can you
> help i really appreciate your response on the website.
> Thanks again
> Travis

>-----Original Message-----
>i am installing xp onto a formatted hardrive. i formatted
>the drive using a 98 boot disk and fdisk and i am having
>problems, when installing xp from the cdrom i keep
getting
>errors saying that a driver or file could not be copied.
>the error codes i am getting are 7 and 4 and they switch
>up. sometimes when i try to install the program i get the
>error 7 and then i will try again and i will get a error
>code 4. i need help and this computer is driving nuts.
>please help what am i doing wrong.
>.
>

travis wrote:
| i am installing xp onto a formatted hardrive. i formatted
| the drive using a 98 boot disk and fdisk and i am having
| problems, when installing xp from the cdrom i keep getting
| errors saying that a driver or file could not be copied.
| the error codes i am getting are 7 and 4 and they switch
| up. sometimes when i try to install the program i get the
| error 7 and then i will try again and i will get a error
| code 4. i need help and this computer is driving nuts.
| please help what am i doing wrong.

I believe that this is a compatability issue between the cdrom
drive and the disk being used to install XP. Is this by any
chance a copy of XP. I was always getting these type errors
with CDROM drives and I now use DVD drives.



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