reinstallation problems

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I recently had to redo my pc because my windows directory got corrupted (by a
virus or what have you). When I tried to reinstall Windows XP Home Edition
the installer would go for a while and then would roughly say:

Image written from Cd is not a valid copy of windows XP... could be a bad
Windows XP CD.

Would you like retry hit enter

skip

or exit

then i hit enter to retry and it gives me:

"Setup could not copy file: Tourp.exe"

then says the image written is invalid.

I have also tried to skip it and it eventually gets stuck on another file it
can't install.


I have also tried this with 2 different windows XP disks and both get
stopped around 51 percent and say: "Setup can't copy file tourW.exe"

Now i know at least one of the XP disks worked because i was installing it
on another machine and it went smoothly. My question is: Is there a limited
number or reinstalls you can perform before windows doesn't install on your
PC?
 
I recently had to redo my pc because my windows directory got corrupted (by
a
virus or what have you). When I tried to reinstall Windows XP Home Edition
the installer would go for a while and then would roughly say:

Image written from Cd is not a valid copy of windows XP... could be a bad
Windows XP CD.

Would you like retry hit enter

skip

or exit

then i hit enter to retry and it gives me:

"Setup could not copy file: Tourp.exe"

then says the image written is invalid.

I have also tried to skip it and it eventually gets stuck on another file
it
can't install.


I have also tried this with 2 different windows XP disks and both get
stopped around 51 percent and say: "Setup can't copy file tourW.exe"

Now i know at least one of the XP disks worked because i was installing it
on another machine and it went smoothly. My question is: Is there a
limited
number or reinstalls you can perform before windows doesn't install on
your
PC?
Click to expand...

No there is no limit to the # of installs. It could be a dirty CD drive
lens or a defective CD drive, or some other hardware problem such as memory
or the hard drive.

Get a CD lens cleaner disk from your local computer supply store and run it
in the drive. You could also try a different, known working CD drive.
Other things to do are download and run at least two of these memory
diagnostic programs. The downloads will create a bootable floppy or CD.
Boot from that and run the diagnostics. Let them run for some time each,
not just a single pass.

Memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

DocMemory Memory Diagnostic
http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp

For the hard drive download a drive diagnostic utility from the hard drive
manufacturer's web site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD. Run the
diagnostics.
 
Happy Noodleboy said:
I recently had to redo my pc because my windows directory got corrupted (by
a
virus or what have you). When I tried to reinstall Windows XP Home Edition
the installer would go for a while and then would roughly say:

Image written from Cd is not a valid copy of windows XP... could be a bad
Windows XP CD.

Would you like retry hit enter

skip

or exit

then i hit enter to retry and it gives me:

"Setup could not copy file: Tourp.exe"

then says the image written is invalid.

I have also tried to skip it and it eventually gets stuck on another file
it
can't install.


I have also tried this with 2 different windows XP disks and both get
stopped around 51 percent and say: "Setup can't copy file tourW.exe"

Now i know at least one of the XP disks worked because i was installing it
on another machine and it went smoothly. My question is: Is there a
limited
number or reinstalls you can perform before windows doesn't install on
your
PC?
Click to expand...

I have had the same thing happen on numourous occasions, I set up pcs a lot,
its nearly always a defective cd-rom drive. try another and you should be
ok.
 
I had the similar problem, my problem turned out to be the memory, I opened
my case, and re-seated the memory, and the problem went away.
 
I had a problem with a memory stick in a lap top. It gave the same sort of
install errors. It would also give blue screen errors. Its most likely a
hardware issue. If you have more than one stick of ram try an install with
only one stick installed at a time. You might Also, disconnect extra cd/dvd
roms, printers and other peripherals.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/bare_bones_troubleshooting_installation.htm
Heres a good link =)

Take care
Gazoo0
 
In undisclosed typed on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:21:59 +0100:
Tried to install XP on a new harddrive and setup stopped at 54% saying
it could not copy tourW.exe, P3.sys and then continued to a blue
screen of death. I tried changing cables, cd's, roms, hardrives and
even the processor. Finally i changed the memory and setup completed.
Sorry to say, but there is no standards when it comes to XP
installations.
Click to expand...

Lots of hits on Google about it, over 700,000 actually. And I feel XP
installations are far too standardize if you ask me. And it sounds like
you might have a bad CD to me.
 
undisclosed said:
Tried to install XP on a new harddrive and setup stopped at 54% saying
it could not copy tourW.exe, P3.sys and then continued to a blue screen
of death. I tried changing cables, cd’s, roms, hardrives and even the
processor. Finally i changed the memory and setup completed. Sorry to
say, but there is no standards when it comes to XP installations.
Click to expand...

Isn't that funny how Windows keeps getting blamed for bad hardware?
 
undisclosed said:
Tried to install XP on a new harddrive and setup stopped at 54%
saying it could not copy tourW.exe, P3.sys and then continued to a
blue screen of death. I tried changing cables, cd's, roms,
hardrives and even the processor. Finally i changed the memory and
setup completed. Sorry to say, but there is no standards when it
comes to XP installations.
Click to expand...

Mark said:
Isn't that funny how Windows keeps getting blamed for bad hardware?
Click to expand...

People tend to blame those things they can see - in this case - Windows.

I find it nice that Windows has gotten less and less likely to install on
bad hardware.

As an example, I have a 'loaner' laptop (Dell Latitude D630) that I was
going to format and put Windows 7 on (it had Windows XP and had reported no
issues.) I put in the DVD, told it what drive I wanted to use and such and
it refused to use the drive because it said it could find no eligible media
(or something along those lines.) I decided to run the Dell Diagnostics on
the drive and it was indeed bad. Dell replaced the drive under warranty
within two days and Windows 7 installed without any issues and has worked
ever since.

Obviously Windows XP did not detect any damage, as that machine had been
reinstalled with Windows XP within the week before...
 
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