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19th Oct 2008, 15:58
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I installed XP Home Edition on a friend's computer and when i did the pre-installition, it skipped 1 file. I then proceeded to install XP with no hickups thereafter. Windows xp loaded fine but after a restart it wouldn't boot up without the XP setup disk.
Can any of you guys shed some light on the situation and help me out please? |
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19th Oct 2008, 15:59
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What do you mean by Pre-installation?
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19th Oct 2008, 16:01
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Why did it skip a file? Could it not read the CD?
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19th Oct 2008, 16:07
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for your question thingie, what i mean by the pre-installation setup is the files copied before the main windows xp setup starts.
heres what i did: 1st of i got the cd to boot into the setup and then proceeded to delete the partition so there wasn't and installs. Next, i continued to install xp when it installs the files to prepare the computer for xp setup - thats where it skipped a file. and then it rebooted and xp setup installed without any problems. |
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#5
19th Oct 2008, 16:09
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Yeah, what was the reason it gave for skipping the file, sounds like a dodgy CD, copy it if you can (Nero should do it) and try again.
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19th Oct 2008, 16:13
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i auctually have 2 copies of xp (both original) and im going to do a repair see if that works.
and   as i wrote in my last thread my um, hard-drive kinda um died on me and im yet to get a replacement.(whats a computer tech-guy with aut a computer) 
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#7
19th Oct 2008, 16:15
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Ooops, well good luck, let us know how you get on.
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#8
19th Oct 2008, 16:16
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lol thank i will post soon with a fix
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#9
20th Oct 2008, 06:42
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If the repair doesn't work, just isntall with the other disk but you can use either key depending on which is more applicable to use.
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21st Oct 2008, 17:06
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ok here's what happened.... it turned out that xp was fine but the person who tried to fix the machine had no sellected the hard drive in the boot sequence...... so after finally figuring it out i feel a lot better now.. *chuckle*
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