Guest Briandp Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu, 30Gb and 80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and Creative sound. I wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the drives and so decided tp clear both drives and reinstall Windows XP Home, which is what was on the computer when I got it. The computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating Disk. I started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer. Everything went fine until it started loading the files. I got to the disk configure and removed the partician and reparticianed and formated to NTFS, which is what it was before. Got through that and started loading files. At 20% it would not load kodak_dc.icm. At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it rejected a total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm stuck and do not know which way to go. Help!
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Re: Clean Install of Windows XP Home Briandp wrote: > I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu, > 30Gb and 80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and > Creative sound. I wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the > drives and so decided tp clear both drives and reinstall Windows XP > Home, which is what was on the computer when I got it. The > computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating Disk. I > started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and > place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer. > Everything went fine until it started loading the files. I got to > the disk configure and removed the partician and reparticianed and > formated to NTFS, which is what it was before. Got through that > and started loading files. At 20% it would not load kodak_dc.icm. > At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it rejected a > total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm stuck > and do not know which way to go. Help! Scratches on the CD itself? It may be a bad CD drive and/or bad hard disk drive and/or bad ram as well. Sometimes just a laser in the CD drive that is 'off'. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest poatt Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 RE: Clean Install of Windows XP Home It is hard to tell. I would suspect if you just booted to the XP CD and formatted through it and now that you are tryimg to reinstall XP. XP did not erase all of the the original OS. And you are getting these faults because the old OS had newer versions of MS software due to updating. And the XP installer is seeing these. I had this happen to me. I would suggest to get a third party disk manager like "BootIt NG" or Sygate makes a good disk manager. But use the 3rd party software to fully format and wipe the drive where it is truly clear of data. Then reinstall XP. Also I prefer to keep all in Fat32 file system. XP works just fine on Fat32. And some older programs that still work with XP but will not work on a NTFS formated drive. For some reason you end up not having compatibility issues. But that is just my preference. Hope this helps? "Briandp" wrote: > I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu, 30Gb and > 80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and Creative sound. I > wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the drives and so decided tp clear > both drives and reinstall Windows XP Home, which is what was on the computer > when I got it. The computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating > Disk. I started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and > place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer. Everything went > fine until it started loading the files. I got to the disk configure and > removed the partician and reparticianed and formated to NTFS, which is what > it was before. Got through that and started loading files. At 20% it would > not load kodak_dc.icm. At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it > rejected a total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm > stuck and do not know which way to go. Help!
Guest Bruce Chambers Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Re: Clean Install of Windows XP Home Briandp wrote: > I have been given a computer, custom made with a 1.8 pentium cpu, 30Gb and > 80Gb hard drive, running an NIVIDIA AGP graphic card and Creative sound. I > wanted to clear out all the old stuff on the drives and so decided tp clear > both drives and reinstall Windows XP Home, which is what was on the computer > when I got it. The computer came with the original Windows XP Home, Opeating > Disk. I started the computer and changed the boot over to the CD drive and > place the XP disk in the drive and restarted the computer. Everything went > fine until it started loading the files. I got to the disk configure and > removed the partician and reparticianed and formated to NTFS, which is what > it was before. Got through that and started loading files. At 20% it would > not load kodak_dc.icm. At 25% it would not load mdwmdmsp.dll and so on. it > rejected a total of 37 dll, sys, jpg, exe, and icm files. Right now I'm > stuck and do not know which way to go. Help! Problems copying files or corrupted files during installation are most often caused by defective, incompatible, or sub-standard hardware; in order of likelihood, either RAM, the hard drive, or the motherboard. On very rare occasions the CD drive or installation CD is the problem. Start with testing the RAM. You might try MemTest86: http://www.memtest86.com/ It's free. Then you can download and use the hard drive maufacturer's diagnostic utility to test the hard drive. If both RAM and hard drive test out clean, check with the motherboard manufacturer for any diagnostic utilities. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
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