Repair install problem

[Menno Hershberger]

I'm trying to do a repair install of XP-Pro. Everything works fine - files
copied OK. Then it gets down to 27 minutes left and hangs (a half hour this
last time). If I shut it off, then it boots back into setup and starts back
at 39 minutes, installs devices, have to re-enter key, then down to 27
minutes again and it hangs again. I can use the same CD and do a fresh
installation on another drive without a hitch, so I'm thinking it's not the
CD. At this point, I can still read the drive as slave on another
computer. What might be hanging it up? It's a brand new Western Digital 120
gig drive. I originally used the WD Lifeguard tools to set it up, copying
all the files from his old drive. But it hung at the welcome screen. That's
why I'm trying to do a repair install on it in the first place. The old
drive still boots and works just fine.

 

[Malke]

I'm trying to do a repair install of XP-Pro. Everything works fine -
files copied OK. Then it gets down to 27 minutes left and hangs (a
half hour this last time). If I shut it off, then it boots back into
setup and starts back at 39 minutes, installs devices, have to
re-enter key, then down to 27
minutes again and it hangs again. I can use the same CD and do a
fresh installation on another drive without a hitch, so I'm thinking
it's not the
CD. At this point, I can still read the drive as slave on another
computer. What might be hanging it up? It's a brand new Western
Digital 120 gig drive. I originally used the WD Lifeguard tools to set
it up, copying all the files from his old drive. But it hung at the
welcome screen. That's why I'm trying to do a repair install on it in
the first place. The old drive still boots and works just fine.

Probably the CD is fine. Even though the drive is brand new, run the
diagnostics on it from the Tools CD you got with the drive. If the
drive tests fine, test your RAM. There is a new version of Memtest86
from www.memtest.org. Make either a bootable cd (you will need to do
this on a machine with a working Internet connection and third-party
burning software to burn the .iso) or a bootable floppy. Boot with the
chosen media and let the test run for an extended period of time. If
the test shows errors, replace the RAM.

Malke

 

[Menno Hershberger]

Probably the CD is fine. Even though the drive is brand new, run the
diagnostics on it from the Tools CD you got with the drive. If the
drive tests fine, test your RAM. There is a new version of Memtest86
from www.memtest.org. Make either a bootable cd (you will need to do
this on a machine with a working Internet connection and third-party
burning software to burn the .iso) or a bootable floppy. Boot with the
chosen media and let the test run for an extended period of time. If
the test shows errors, replace the RAM.

I got it working before I caught your post. When I mirrored his drive
the first time I used a third drive with the WD software on it and just
used "copy partition". Second time around, I installed the WD software on
his old drive and used "install new drive". It copied the existing active
drive to the new one and it worked. I had been afraid it couldn't copy
that way since some of the files would be in use.