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Cant install xp on hd

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BainsStatic

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My friends hd recently started not too work correctly. It would just restart over and over before it got to the windows. Then got worse where he would get this blue screen. I eventually posted about it and recovered the data.

I deleted his previous partition and tried to install xp, but when it got to the point to set up xp it would give another blue screen with an error. I got different error messages like "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and "CDFS..."
 
The IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL errors are able to be generated by both software and hardware issues. The message indicates that a kernel mode process or driver attempted to access a memory address that it did not have access to. This could be driver, hardware(my choice), or software. Deleting the partition( and assumedly doing a fresh format) wipes all software away, so I doubt its software or driver related. I had a hardrive do almost the same thing during a motherboard swap. It ended up frying the hardrive(thanks Microsoft/windows!). The boot sector and another BUNCH of areas went bad. I could get more info if you could record more of the errors.

By the way, the hardrive was so crapped out, I coulnt even get it to finish a scandisc, or rely on it for plain old storage.:mad:
 
Try zero out the hard drive completely and starting over with a fresh install. I have done this on a few HDs and it worked. Its worth a shot also here is a link to a program to zero out a the HD
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Try zero out the hard drive completely and starting over with a fresh install. I have done this on a few HDs and it worked. Its worth a shot also here is a link to a program to zero out a the HD
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:cool: mmmmm...........This looks interesting. I'm gonna see what it does on that fried drive I'VE got.
 
I was getting the same thing and it turned out to be a bad stick of RAM. Apparently, the ram was corrupting everything else.
 
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