xp setup troubles

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when trying to install windows xp home edition setup stops halfway prompting to insert xp disk on cd-rom as is trying to copy files from it, but the disk is already being used by the computer to install the program, When it prompts to choose a path after I press ok to the particular drive where the cd is, it says it cannot find file, when I choose proceed with setup without a file, it goes to the next file which will not be found and so on with all the other files. I don't know whether this is a hardware problem or not, I am trying to re-install windows after re-formatting the hardrive due to problems with the computer. Plese help....
Thank you

Elly

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Elly

See if the following article helps:

"Clean Install Windows XP"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Will Denny
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| when trying to install windows xp home edition setup stops halfway
prompting to insert xp disk on cd-rom as is trying to copy files from it,
but the disk is already being used by the computer to install the program,
When it prompts to choose a path after I press ok to the particular drive
where the cd is, it says it cannot find file, when I choose proceed with
setup without a file, it goes to the next file which will not be found and
so on with all the other files. I don't know whether this is a hardware
problem or not, I am trying to re-install windows after re-formatting the
hardrive due to problems with the computer. Plese help....
| Thank you
|
| Elly