Windows XP Setup Horrors

[Barry Chapman]

I had Windows XP Installed on my WD800 (80gb) drive fine before, but then my
motherboard completely failed. I have since replaced the motherboard and
reformatted the hard drive a number of times using various low level
formatters and quick formatters. However, whenever setup goes through the
copying file process it nearly ALWAYS freezes. When i create a 15gb and 60gb
partition, it works fine when i install it to the 15gb partition. There are
no bad sectors or blocks on the hard drive but yet it seems to keep failing.

It even did it on a 160gb hard drive I also have. The motherboard is an ECS
main board with 256mb of ram, 2.80ghz.

I tried to install windows 2000, and I had the same problem. Does anyone
have ANY idea why this would be happening?


Thanks


Barry

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Problems copying files or corrupted files during installation
are most often caused by defective or sub-standard hardware; in order
of likelihood, either RAM, the hard drive, or the motherboard. On
much less frequent occasions, a bad CD or defective CD drive can also
cause this.

Since, in your case, the only new factor is the motherboard, I'd
look there, first.


Bruce Chambers
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[Rudi]

Low-level formatting of Hard Drives is NOT recommended anymore. Some
low-level formatting tools may actually damage the HD. Read the instructions
that came with the HD.

Just to be on the safe side...