XP Re-Install Problems

[Hammy]

Hi, my machine recently crashed with Windows XP Home
Edition Installed. I therefore had to rebuild it but have
had problems since. The Install process runs fine until
it starts copying files needed for setup where I then get
messages that it "cannot copy ****.dll (various files each
time). I can skip these files but then the install
process completes unsuccessfully.

Please help cos this is doin me simple wee head in...

Thanks

 

[Dana]

Hammy, you may want to repost again soon, because we have had some GIANT
server problems, and not everyone got to see your post.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi, my machine recently crashed with Windows XP Home
Edition Installed. I therefore had to rebuild it but have
had problems since. The Install process runs fine until
it starts copying files needed for setup where I then get
messages that it "cannot copy ****.dll (various files each
time). I can skip these files but then the install
process completes unsuccessfully.

This suggests a problem with actual reading from the CD - drive trouble.

One thing you could do, if this is a 'proper' XP CD, not some restore
one, is format the hard disk to FAT 32 using a Win98 startup floppy,
and use that to copy the whole i386 folder from the CD to hard disk.
Then if a file has difficulty in copying, you can retry just that file.
Once done, go to the hard drive (give C: ) and then
CD i386
and
WINNNT