Damaged XP boot disk?

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I'm having trouble installing XP onto a clean hard drive. While the windows
executive loads before installation begins, I get several errors: pci.sys is
corrupted, pciide.sys is corrupted. Sometimes these errors do not come up and
I get as far as 90% through the pre-installer, but an error will inevitably
come up and force me to re-start and try again. I would like to believe
there's a problem with the XP disk I'm using, but I cannot see any scratches
on it's surface. What do you think the problem is?
 
caleb said:
I'm having trouble installing XP onto a clean hard drive. While the
windows
executive loads before installation begins, I get several errors: pci.sys
is
corrupted, pciide.sys is corrupted. Sometimes these errors do not come up
and
I get as far as 90% through the pre-installer, but an error will
inevitably
come up and force me to re-start and try again. I would like to believe
there's a problem with the XP disk I'm using, but I cannot see any
scratches
on it's surface. What do you think the problem is?
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Have you tried cleaning the CD?
 
This can usually be caused by an unreadable CD, a bad CD drive, a bad hard
drive, or bad system RAM.
 
charli b said:
because it can help to install the system without the problems you are
getting
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But it's not ME that's got the problem! Reply to the original poster.......
 
AJR said:
Gordon he is not replying to you - he is continuing the thread.
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No he's not - he's replied to ME. How else has he quoted MY reply? He should
have replied to the OP not to me.
 
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