Installing (Setup) XP Pro

[Mike]

Hi,

Can anyone help? Win. XP Pro was running
wonderfully on my computer but after I installed a SCSI
hard drive it could not find it. I checked in Device
Manager to which both the SCSI card as well as the drive
said, everything is working properly. However, the drive
does not show up in My Computer. The Floppies, IDE Drives
as well as the SYquest EZ-Drive all are accounted for. I
figured that I must have to reload Windows. Upon doing
so, I first get this error message:

"An unexpected error (256)
occurred at line 5137 in d:\xpclient\base\boot
\setup\setup.c."

Press any key to continue.

Upon continuing, the next error message rears it's ugly
head:

"Manifest Parse Error:
Invalid at the top level of the document".

Pressing any key reboots the machine to which the error
message of a file is missing or corrupted. Do you have
any ideas?


Mike

 

[Tim]

Mike,

Had you gone into Computer Management / Disk Management and formatted the
disc drive to create a partition yet?

Doing a search on your error at http://support.microsoft.com/ revealed this
link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311562

It does not bode well (and I don't believe it 100% since your installation
was working). At this point and without further information, I would - if
you can't step back to your current / previous install - remove the SCSI
hardware and try again.

What is the make and model of the SCSI controller & disc drive? Is it
installed as per manufacturers instructions? IE is the SCSI bus terminated
correctly and do you have a correct SCSI ID for the disc drive - if it is a
disc drive then it should have an ID of Zero if it is the first disc (any ID
0 to 6 on SCSI II or III is OK, - more options with SCSI III IE it should
not be 7 on SCSI II, not sure about SCSI III - see manual).

-Tim