Trying to reinstall windows XP home

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  1. mcdawn

    mcdawn Member

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    Hi all, here's my problem...

    Im reformatting my hard drive back to day 1 with the windows XP disc I have from when I bought the laptop.

    When it has 39 minutes left I get the error message "cyclic redundency error" and something about a windows component missing. It re-starts the laptop and goes back to this bit and then restarts..... and so on and so forth!

    I have done a chkdsk r and a chkdsk f - all is well!
    I've tried using a different XP disc - same problem!
    I've accessed the BIOS and made sure it boots from disc - done!

    Can anyone shed some like on the problem... I have tralled the net looking for the answer with no luck!

    Cheers in advance!
     
  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    try cleaning the laser lens of your rom drive. can you get or borrow an external rom drive & boot of that with your cd?
     
  3. Oldaussie

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    Try using another Hard Drive, your old one have too many problems
     

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