Damaged XP boot disk?

[Guest]

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?

 

[Gordon]

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?

Have you tried cleaning the CD?

 

[charli b]

Have you tried cleaning the CD?

try copying the installation files to the hard-drive and run it from there.

 

[Gordon]

try copying the installation files to the hard-drive and run it from
there.

Why are you telling me that?

 

[charli b]

Why are you telling me that?

because it can help to install the system without the problems you are
getting

 

[Dave B.]

This can usually be caused by an unreadable CD, a bad CD drive, a bad hard
drive, or bad system RAM.

 

[Gordon]

because it can help to install the system without the problems you are
getting

But it's not ME that's got the problem! Reply to the original poster.......

 

[AJR]

Gordon he is not replying to you - he is continuing the thread.

 

[Gordon]

Gordon he is not replying to you - he is continuing the thread.

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.

 

[AJR]

Come on! in continuing a thread all replies are included!!

 

[Gordon]

Come on! in continuing a thread all replies are included!!

VB Sigh.........