windows installation problems! please help!

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

I've got some problems installing windows. I was in the process of
formatting my HD and reinstalling XP when I ran into some problems. The
format went fine, and everything seemed to be going OK. Then I got this
error message:

D:\I386\asms. Error Message:
The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is
no longer valid.

I don't know what to make of this. I had a clean (formatted) HD on the
first IDE port alone, and my CD drive on the other. At first I thought it
might be the hard drive, so I tried it with another drive. Then I purchased
an SATA drive. Same error message with all 3 drives. I was using an action
pack XP SP1 CD, then tried it again with an action pack normal windows XP
(initial release, i guess?) and got the same problem.

So ... I'm extremely confused. Can anyone help me out??

 

[Guest]

It sounds like you have tried different drives and CDs now I would try just
to eliminate it a different CDROM. We have had issues from time to time
loading windows and the issue was the CDROM. Not sure why but we just changed
the cdrom and it loaded just fine. AFter the install was finished put the old
cdrom back in the pc and everything was just fine. Worth a shot....

Good luck!