fresh xp home problems

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just reinstaled xp home on my pc and cant installed sp2 from the disc getting
errors on it i have 2 copys borrowed one off a friend and that the same
also downloaded it from windows update same errors the last one killed
computer completely where it crashed
on installing some games ect the computer finds lots of errors in msi
installer and cab files yet i know these are ok any ideas
 
Hi luth,

Reinstalled cleanly by formatting or a repair installation?
What errors?
Why did you feel the need to reinstall?
Why don't you use punctuation and proper grammer so that we can understand
your questions more clearly?

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well firstly i reinstalled after problems with graphics and computer was bit
slow,so i did a clean install formatted installed raid drivers ect all ok
xp up and running fine!
then on trying to install sp2 from disc i got a extraction error file is
corrupt!
so i think disc possably scratched, so i borrowed a freinds one and got the
same error at different file so it wont install ,even downloaded from windows
update and that version crashed with a blue screen error, so formatted again
reinstalled ect
back up running ok
thought id leave sp2 because of the problems i was having
so then i tryed to install some games back on both copys failed extraction
in different
places
now i know the discs are ok so any idea's
and sorry for poor grammer
thx in advance
 
luth said:
well firstly i reinstalled after problems with graphics and computer was bit
slow,so i did a clean install formatted installed raid drivers ect all ok
xp up and running fine!
then on trying to install sp2 from disc i got a extraction error file is
corrupt!
so i think disc possably scratched, so i borrowed a freinds one and got the
same error at different file so it wont install ,even downloaded from windows
update and that version crashed with a blue screen error, so formatted again
reinstalled ect
back up running ok
thought id leave sp2 because of the problems i was having
so then i tryed to install some games back on both copys failed extraction
in different
places
now i know the discs are ok so any idea's
and sorry for poor grammer
thx in advance








:

Did you disable your anti virus' auto scan before installing?

Alias
 
yeh turned off anti virus
seems to not want to extract any thing
tryed win zip 10 that will extract the corrupt file on its own, but not
extract all
then i tryed all files and same error, even extracted them all in order and
run the exe but that dont work either
 

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