Installing Windows on a new drive

[Jake]

Recently when replacing a drive in a friends computer I had some problems
getting the machine to install windows. The machine in question is a Tiny
Computers TI440BXM. It is a fairly old machine from about 2001. I replaced
the hard drive and attempted to boot off of the Win Xp pro cd I have. It
said it was detecting the hardware then came up with this message. --- "INF
File txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 4096 Setup cannot continue
press any key to exit" Which I did.

I then tried the recovery set that came with the computer, which has
Windows ME. It is a cd and floppy disk you insert at the same time and
reboot. However an error message came up again saying " Error # 91 - Disk
manager has been detected on drive 0 but disc manager is not running..." It
told me to reboot with the floppy. I clicked ok on this and the program
seemed to run, then as the progress bar started another error message
displayed. " Error# 1826 Error: Free Space not found." I did format the
drive properly with software from the drives manufacturer. Has anyone any
idea what is happening. Could these error messages be part of something
Tiny has built into their systems to prevent people from formatting the
drive with any other cd rather than their own or use a hard drive they
haven't installed?.

Jake

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Set the boot sequence for CD in the BIOS.

See link:
http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/windows_xp.htm

Andre

 

[t.cruise]

If you booted from the Windows XP CD, you should have been given the option to format the
new drive. I had a problem installing, on a new drive, and I finally deduced that it was
caused by one of the peripherals that I didn't unplug before I began the install. After I
unplugged that peripheral the error messages stopped, I installed Windows XP, and then
went to the site of the maker of the peripheral and downloaded and installed the Windows
XP compatible driver for it. Then when I plugged in the peripheral, Windows XP found it,
and installed the driver for it.

If the above isn't relevant: Is it possible that the Windows XP CD that you're trying to
install isn't a retail CD, but an OEM Windows XP CD that's tied to the motherboard of the
system it was purchased with? If that's the case, you will not be able to install from
that OEM CD on a system other than one from the maker of the original system it was
bundled with.

 

[Jake]

Yeh I already tried that. It is booting from the cd ok. Just doesnt get
past that error message.

 

[Jake]

It is a full retail version of the operating system.

I am totally stumped as to what to do with this. Never had any problem
replacing a hard drive in any other computer I have repaired. Usually just
boots from the cd easily and installs.

If you booted from the Windows XP CD, you should have been given the option to format the
new drive. I had a problem installing, on a new drive, and I finally deduced that it was
caused by one of the peripherals that I didn't unplug before I began the install. After I
unplugged that peripheral the error messages stopped, I installed Windows XP, and then
went to the site of the maker of the peripheral and downloaded and installed the Windows
XP compatible driver for it. Then when I plugged in the peripheral, Windows XP found it,
and installed the driver for it.

If the above isn't relevant: Is it possible that the Windows XP CD that you're trying to
install isn't a retail CD, but an OEM Windows XP CD that's tied to the motherboard of the
system it was purchased with? If that's the case, you will not be able to install from
that OEM CD on a system other than one from the maker of the original system it was
bundled with.
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T.C.
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Recently when replacing a drive in a friends computer I had some problems
getting the machine to install windows. The machine in question is a Tiny
Computers TI440BXM. It is a fairly old machine from about 2001. I replaced
the hard drive and attempted to boot off of the Win Xp pro cd I have. It
said it was detecting the hardware then came up with this message. --- "INF
File txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 4096 Setup cannot continue
press any key to exit" Which I did.

I then tried the recovery set that came with the computer, which has
Windows ME. It is a cd and floppy disk you insert at the same time and
reboot. However an error message came up again saying " Error # 91 - Disk
manager has been detected on drive 0 but disc manager is not running..." It
told me to reboot with the floppy. I clicked ok on this and the program
seemed to run, then as the progress bar started another error message
displayed. " Error# 1826 Error: Free Space not found." I did format the
drive properly with software from the drives manufacturer. Has anyone any
idea what is happening. Could these error messages be part of something
Tiny has built into their systems to prevent people from formatting the
drive with any other cd rather than their own or use a hard drive they
haven't installed?.

Jake

 

[Malke]

Yeh I already tried that. It is booting from the cd ok. Just doesnt
get past that error message.

It could be part of the Tiny system, but it could also be that you have
failing hardware. Bad RAM is a major culprit when an operating system
won't install. Test with Memtest86 from www.memtest86.com to start.

Malke