XP "Cyclic Redundancy Check" Install Error

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Jennifer

I recently bought a new hard drive to replace one that
was going out. The machine had been running Win98, so my
client decided to upgrade to XP Home. I put the new hard
drive in, flashed the bios to the latest version
available, and removed all the extra hardware. The
upgrade is using a new, legal copy of XP Home Upgrade.

The current hardware configuration in the machine is:

Athlon 600 MhZ (Slot A, not Socket A)
128 MB of RAM (it did have 256, but I took one of the
chips out because I suspected it might be bad)
1 DVD/CD Drive (disconnected the CD-RW for installation)
Video Card
3-1/5" Floppy
80 MB ATA133 Maxtor hard drive

The only peripherals attached to this machine are the
mouse, keyboard, and monitor - all USB devices have been
removed. The sound and network cards have also been
pulled, and the zip drive has been disconnected.

The installation starts fine, partitions the hard drive
(I broke it up into 2 partitions, because Linux will be
installed on the other. WinXP will go on a 60 GB
partition, and Linux will go on a 20 GB.), formats its
partition using NTFS, and begins the GUI installation.

Now comes the error. After it gets into the GUI
installation, I receive a "Cyclic Redundancy Check"
error, and it instructs me to use the repair console to
run chkdsk /r.

On the first pass through, Checkdisk found and repaired
errors, so I ran it again to make sure it caught
everything. The second pass came up clean.

I restarted the installation and, lo-and-behold, there
comes the error again, complete with the same
instructions. I've been through this process about 5
times now. It gets this error with 39 minutes remaining.

Thinking that the hard drive might be bad (this was the
first time it had been used), I hooked it up to a
tester. Nope. The hard drive is in perfect working
order.

Does anyone have any ideas? I tend to suspect the bios
(the MB is about 4 years old), but the computer
recognized the hard drive size and formatted an NTFS
partition with no problem.

Thanks!
 
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| I recently bought a new hard drive to replace one that
| was going out. The machine had been running Win98, so my
| client decided to upgrade to XP Home. I put the new hard
| drive in, flashed the bios to the latest version
| available, and removed all the extra hardware. The
| upgrade is using a new, legal copy of XP Home Upgrade.
|
| The current hardware configuration in the machine is:
|
| Athlon 600 MhZ (Slot A, not Socket A)
| 128 MB of RAM (it did have 256, but I took one of the
| chips out because I suspected it might be bad)
| 1 DVD/CD Drive (disconnected the CD-RW for installation)
| Video Card
| 3-1/5" Floppy
| 80 MB ATA133 Maxtor hard drive
|
| The only peripherals attached to this machine are the
| mouse, keyboard, and monitor - all USB devices have been
| removed. The sound and network cards have also been
| pulled, and the zip drive has been disconnected.
|
| The installation starts fine, partitions the hard drive
| (I broke it up into 2 partitions, because Linux will be
| installed on the other. WinXP will go on a 60 GB
| partition, and Linux will go on a 20 GB.), formats its
| partition using NTFS, and begins the GUI installation.
|
| Now comes the error. After it gets into the GUI
| installation, I receive a "Cyclic Redundancy Check"
| error, and it instructs me to use the repair console to
| run chkdsk /r.
|
| On the first pass through, Checkdisk found and repaired
| errors, so I ran it again to make sure it caught
| everything. The second pass came up clean.
|
| I restarted the installation and, lo-and-behold, there
| comes the error again, complete with the same
| instructions. I've been through this process about 5
| times now. It gets this error with 39 minutes remaining.
|
| Thinking that the hard drive might be bad (this was the
| first time it had been used), I hooked it up to a
| tester. Nope. The hard drive is in perfect working
| order.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas? I tend to suspect the bios
| (the MB is about 4 years old), but the computer
| recognized the hard drive size and formatted an NTFS
| partition with no problem.
|
| Thanks!
 
Thanks, but I've already done this. There's some other
problem, and I know the hard drive doesn't need replaced,
because I tested it and it's fine.
 
I just had the same problem when setting up my girlfriend's new pc. I
had built it myself, so a big 'uh-oh' went through my head at first, but
then I just decided to go the easy route and try my xp cd and not hers.
Worked fine. Never got the error again.
 
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