New hard drive

[Guest]

I had XP Pro on a hard drive that crapped out the other day. But now when I try to put it on the new drive, all seems fine until the computer restarts. I comes up at the installation screen (the one where it says "30+ minutes remaining) and after a few seconds an error window comes up stating the "l386\asms file could not be installed". I tried another clean install, thinking that might do it, but that same thing happened.

I have my W98SE cd, should I try installing it first, then upgrading XP Pro over that

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Brad Combs]

This is the wrong newsgroup. Posts like this should go to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.

However, your problem is bad installation media. (Your CD is bad, probably
scratched or a bad burn on a CD-R).

If this is the original installation media you may be out of luck. If it's
a copy try making another copy from the original installation media. If you
don't have the original installation media go buy a copy.

HTH,
--
Brad Combs
Imago Technologies, LLC

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I had XP Pro on a hard drive that crapped out the other day. But now when

I try to put it on the new drive, all seems fine until the computer
restarts. I comes up at the installation screen (the one where it says "30+
minutes remaining) and after a few seconds an error window comes up stating
the "l386\asms file could not be installed". I tried another clean
install, thinking that might do it, but that same thing happened.