Bill said:
Everytime I try to install Windows XP Home edition I get
the same error message.
WINNT32 caused an exception C0000006H in module
KERNEL32.dll at 017f:bff857fc
I am currently runninf WIN 98 on a Pentium with 256Ram and
9GB of hard drive available.
Thanks
There are two ways of installing XP - a clean install where the hard
drive is formatted first and an upgrade install where the new operating
system is installed "on top" of the old operating system. If you are
doing the latter, try a clean install instead. Formatting the drive
will wipe all current data, so you would expect to reinstall programs
from cd and restore data from backups. If you are already doing a clean
install and the installation is failing, you probably have bad
hardware. Start with a RAM test - I like Memtest86 from
www.memtest86.com - and let the test run for an extended time, like
overnight (unless you get errors immediately). If the RAM is good, then
run a hard drive diagnostic utility, which you can get from the drive
mftr.'s website.
Malke
