XP professional reinstall crashes

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Chris

Attempting to reinstall windows XP pro causes a fatal
error when it cannot find D:\i386\asms. I have tried this
from 2 different CD's with the same results. I do not want
to format the hard drive if possible. XP remembers where
it is in the installation, so I cannot get past the error.
I tried booting to safe mode, but it says the installation
cannot run in safe mode and give no choices to abort the
install. I tried botting to last known good configuration,
but that has the same reults. Any ideas how to get past
the error by aborting the install, or restarting a new
install w/o trashing the data on the HDD?
 
-----Original Message-----
Attempting to reinstall windows XP pro causes a fatal
error when it cannot find D:\i386\asms. I have tried this
from 2 different CD's with the same results. I do not want
to format the hard drive if possible. XP remembers where
it is in the installation, so I cannot get past the error.
I tried booting to safe mode, but it says the installation
cannot run in safe mode and give no choices to abort the
install. I tried botting to last known good configuration,
but that has the same reults. Any ideas how to get past
the error by aborting the install, or restarting a new
install w/o trashing the data on the HDD?
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Most likely the Ram. WinXP is very touchy on cheap/bad
Ram. Other versions of Windows may still work but not
WinXP. VERY common problem. Try swapping your Ram.

Hope this helps!

Gary Thorn
MVP-Windows Technologies/Xbox
Associate Expert


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