Installing Xp 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

 

[Michael]

Did you check the BIOS settings for the new hard-drive? Should be Primary
IDE Master... also check that its size, dma, io modes are accurate or set
them to auto. Of course, see the jumper settings on the hard-drive, if any.
Michael

 

[Guest]

With regards to the problem with the original recovery set, do you know if
the files for recovery are stored on the CD or a partition on the original
HD. If they were stored on the old HD, then I think you're out of luck.