Clean Install of Windows XP Home

[Guest]

I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu, 30Gb and
80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and Creative sound. I
wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the drives and so decided tp clear
both drives and reinstall Windows XP Home, which is what was on the computer
when I got it. The computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating
Disk. I started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and
place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer. Everything went
fine until it started loading the files. I got to the disk configure and
removed the partician and reparticianed and formated to NTFS, which is what
it was before. Got through that and started loading files. At 20% it would
not load kodak_dc.icm. At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it
rejected a total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm
stuck and do not know which way to go. Help!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu,
30Gb and 80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and
Creative sound. I wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the
drives and so decided tp clear both drives and reinstall Windows XP
Home, which is what was on the computer when I got it. The
computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating Disk. I
started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and
place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer.
Everything went fine until it started loading the files. I got to
the disk configure and removed the partician and reparticianed and
formated to NTFS, which is what it was before. Got through that
and started loading files. At 20% it would not load kodak_dc.icm.
At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it rejected a
total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm stuck
and do not know which way to go. Help!

Scratches on the CD itself?
It may be a bad CD drive and/or bad hard disk drive and/or bad ram as well.

Sometimes just a laser in the CD drive that is 'off'.

 

[Guest]

It is hard to tell.
I would suspect if you just booted to the XP CD and formatted through it
and now that you are tryimg to reinstall XP. XP did not erase all of the the
original OS. And you are getting these faults because the old OS had newer
versions of MS software due to updating. And the XP installer is seeing these.
I had this happen to me.
I would suggest to get a third party disk manager like "BootIt NG" or
Sygate makes a good disk manager. But use the 3rd party software to fully
format and wipe the drive where it is truly clear of data. Then reinstall XP.
Also I prefer to keep all in Fat32 file system. XP works just fine on
Fat32. And some older programs that still work with XP but will not work on a
NTFS formated drive. For some reason you end up not having compatibility
issues. But that is just my preference.
Hope this helps?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu, 30Gb and
80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and Creative sound. I
wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the drives and so decided tp clear
both drives and reinstall Windows XP Home, which is what was on the computer
when I got it. The computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating
Disk. I started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and
place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer. Everything went
fine until it started loading the files. I got to the disk configure and
removed the partician and reparticianed and formated to NTFS, which is what
it was before. Got through that and started loading files. At 20% it would
not load kodak_dc.icm. At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it
rejected a total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm
stuck and do not know which way to go. Help!

Problems copying files or corrupted files during installation are
most often caused by defective, incompatible, or sub-standard hardware;
in order of likelihood, either RAM, the hard drive, or the motherboard.
On very rare occasions the CD drive or installation CD is the problem.

Start with testing the RAM. You might try MemTest86:
http://www.memtest86.com/ It's free. Then you can download and use the
hard drive maufacturer's diagnostic utility to test the hard drive. If
both RAM and hard drive test out clean, check with the motherboard
manufacturer for any diagnostic utilities.


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Bruce Chambers

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