Really weird problem

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Suki243

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This is a really weird problem that has been goin on, my cousin was having problems with his computer and so he called me and told me that he needed to reformatt, i said ok. Without asking him what the problem was i reformatted. This is on a really old e machines , don't know the full specs. This is reformatting xp, It was going well until i got an error message, the message said something about a file that cannot be copied. i pushed continue and went on, then a ton of these error's came up. all saying different things, one said it didn't install the dvd player or somthing like that i thought that was logical since he didn't have a dvd reader, so after all the error messages and the installation was complete i rebooted it and it said that xp wasn;t correctly installed so i thought maybe the reason i got those error messages was because of my xp disc, so i got another one and tried that yet the same thing occured again. Then i asked my cousin how he got xp on the first time and he said he upgraded from windows 98 which i dont understand. Help it really bothers me, should i try getting a new hdd, should i reformatt on a newer computer then put the hdd in or what?
 
Did you just do a repair of XP or did you actually reformat? Maybe going in and manually deleteing the partitions and doing a full format instead of quick. Any weird noises coming from the HD?
 
Your not being very descriptive of the problem, but I am gathering that neither of you are very familiar with XP or troubleshooting. My first suggestion would have been to try another CD, but you did that. I would also try another optical drive. I've had old ones that have trouble reading CDs. Also, download a program called memtest, and make a bootable floppy with it (it will help you do this). Test out the memory. I've seen computers with bad memory have trouble installing an OS.
 
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