bobcat43 Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 when booting xp from cd all goes well until it needs to restart it goes to black that says "disc read error occurred" press CTRL+ALT and DEL to restart after doing this it goes back to black screen. can anyone provide a solution to this . TIA Quote
KenB Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 Hi and welcome to ExTS I have split your post from the other thread ( you are better with your own :) ) and have moved it from the Win 8 forum to XP which is the most appropriate. Is the XP CD an original or is it a copy ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 13, 2013 Author Posted February 13, 2013 Hi and welcome to ExTS I have split your post from the other thread ( you are better with your own :) ) and have moved it from the Win 8 forum to XP which is the most appropriate. Is the XP CD an original or is it a copy ? the xp cd is original copy Quote
Plastic Nev Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 Hi, I assume this is a recovery CD that came with that computer when new, if it is a disk that came with a different computer, it will not work. However if it is the original disk that came with the computer, is it damaged in any way, scratches for example? If it is scratched, providing it isn't too deep, the scratches may be polished out by specialised CD recovery polishing machines. As recently discussed privately among our staff, any used games or used DVD/CD retailer may have one. May be a small charge for the service. Nev. Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here. If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed Windows, now how do I install the curtains? 😄
KenB Posted February 14, 2013 Posted February 14, 2013 the xp cd is original copy Is this a burned copy that has been given to you by somebody ? Burned copies can throw up problems. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 14, 2013 Author Posted February 14, 2013 i have two windows cd home and pro both windows original the sane happens at the same time so i don`t think it is the cd Quote
maynardvdm Posted February 14, 2013 Posted February 14, 2013 Hi Are you installing it to a new hard drive? The old one might be faulty. You can try to put the hard drive in another pc to test it. Quote We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. RaidMax Smilodon Gaming Case | Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H M/B | Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.4GHz | 8GB Corsair RAM | Nvidia GTX550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 | Corsair 800w PSU Register for FREE >>here<< | If we have helped you, please consider a donation >>here<< SAS | MBAM | WinPatrol | Avira | ERUNT | Nvidia Drivers http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll57/mjsmileys/userbarnew4sec.gif
bobcat43 Posted February 14, 2013 Author Posted February 14, 2013 Hi Are you installing it to a new hard drive? The old one might be faulty. You can try to put the hard drive in another pc to test it. the hard drive is out of a another pc and it work fine i have tried another drive whit sane result Quote
KenB Posted February 14, 2013 Posted February 14, 2013 disc read error occurred I assume that the CDROM is the first in the Boot Order in the BIOS ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 14, 2013 Author Posted February 14, 2013 yes the cdrom is first in boot order Quote
KenB Posted February 15, 2013 Posted February 15, 2013 If the CDROM is first in the boot order and you have tried this with 2 hard drives - it is pointing to the CD. Have you run a check on the hard drive just to be sure ? download WINDFT from here: ( It will test any drive ) click here You will have to connect the drive to the working computer - obviously :) Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Posted February 15, 2013 the hard drive is working and two cds do the sane Quote
KenB Posted February 15, 2013 Posted February 15, 2013 the hard drive is working When you say the drive is working - there could be damaged sectors that only a test would show up. two cds do the sane Question: When you get the error message when the machine starts re-booting ....... have you used the second disk at this stage ? If not - try swapping to the second disk ( even if it doesn't prompt you to ). Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Posted February 15, 2013 the drive was working in the old pc when i removed it. when it reboots i will swapp the cd Quote
Synapse Posted February 15, 2013 Posted February 15, 2013 Sometimes apparent install issues are actually memory faults. Download the Memtest ISO from here http://www.memtest.org/ Burn it, boot and run a memory check. Quote
bobcat43 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Posted February 16, 2013 i tryd swapping the cds it made no differants Quote
KenB Posted February 17, 2013 Posted February 17, 2013 When you get the Disk Read Error message ............ check in the BIOS to see if the drive is still recognised. Also try ... Pull the CMOS battery for 1 minute and replace. This will re-set the BIOS to defaults. Try the re-install again. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 17, 2013 Author Posted February 17, 2013 When you get the Disk Read Error message ............ check in the BIOS to see if the drive is still recognised. Also try ... Pull the CMOS battery for 1 minute and replace. This will re-set the BIOS to defaults. Try the re-install again. on restart i preset F9 went into boot menu the sequence had gone back to floppy so i put it to cdrom and it went back to start all over .I don't now what it should be at this point should it be on hard drives Quote
RandyL Posted February 18, 2013 Posted February 18, 2013 Hi. 2 disks both fail to read and install Windows. I would rule out disk failures. Does the computer read any other disks OK? It goes to black screen? Is this after Windows was installing from the disks? You tried 2 different hard drives and 2 different installation disks. You are getting the same results as I understand it. To me this only leaves two possibilities. 1. Faulty memory as Synapse suggested in post 15. You have not checked the memory as he suggested have you? 2. Your optical drive has failed. There is only one way to positively check that. Replace it. I would suggest trying the installation disks in another computer but as you said 2 disks failed and you would not want to install Windows on a good computer anyway. Quote We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.Get help with computer problems. Join Free PC Help here Donations are welcome. Read Here
bobcat43 Posted February 19, 2013 Author Posted February 19, 2013 Hi. 2 disks both fail to read and install Windows. I would rule out disk failures. Does the computer read any other disks OK? It goes to black screen? Is this after Windows was installing from the disks? You tried 2 different hard drives and 2 different installation disks. You are getting the same results as I understand it. To me this only leaves two possibilities. 1. Faulty memory as Synapse suggested in post 15. You have not checked the memory as he suggested have you? 2. Your optical drive has failed. There is only one way to positively check that. Replace it. I would suggest trying the installation disks in another computer but as you said 2 disks failed and you would not want to install Windows on a good computer anyway. Hi it is after it has half installed before the registration .The computer reboots to fines the install Quote
KenB Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 I have just re-read this thread. My post #13 is talking rubbish ............ I now realise that the 2 disks you refer to are XP Home and PRO. I have seen PRO on 2 disks before. Pull one of the RAM modules and run off the other. Try the installation now. If you get the same problem ......swap the RAM modules over and run off the other one. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
bobcat43 Posted February 20, 2013 Author Posted February 20, 2013 Hi it was the RAM it was badly seated i puled it out and the problem has stoped so THANKS TO EVERY ONE FOR THERE HELP Quote
KenB Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 http://www.smileystar.com/smileys/msn-dancing-smileys/disco%20dance.gif Good to hear that you can get your machine up and running again. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
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