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Tearose

Tearose

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Jan 12, 2005
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I was given a few years old laptop, and considering it had been used mainly for viewing porn, I decided to install the operating system from scratch. Using a Windows XP Pro, SP2 disk, it got part way through, then had an error, and stopped. Now it won't let me do anything but continue setup of winXP SP2, and if I try to do that, it keeps coming to the same fatal error. The message says:
Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
What can I do?
TIA
Jill
 
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Clean the CDROM - or use another one if possible. Also clean the CD Drive if you can. The problem is probably dirt or scratch related.
Next, boot the CD (either set the BIOS to boot CD then HDD, or set the BIOS to boot CD then HDD and press any key when the BIOS prompts you too boot from CD.
When windows starts from the CD choose the options that let you remove all partitions from the HDD and then create a new partition or partitions as you wish and format them (don't quick format)
If it fails in the same place then the CDROM or CDROM drive has a fault or one or both are still dirty.


[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]
 
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I did try cleaning the disk, and can't see dust or scratches. The drive also looks clean. But the only option it's allowing is to continue setup from the disk. It won't go to where I can remove a partition. (Initially, when I was at that point, I had it install in the existing partition, but convert to NTFS. It apparently completed the conversion, then gets hung up somewhere during the installation.)
 
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What kind of XP CDROM is it? OEM or FULL?

If full, then you can always force it to boot to the CD and start over by removing all existing partitions.

If necessary get hold of an old DOS bootable floppy and boot to that and use fdisk to remove the partitions.

Then add new partition(s) and format (them) to NTFS.

Best of Luck

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]
 
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It's OEM. The laptop has no floppy drive, altho I can connect one to the parallel port, but I tried that with another CD drive, and it wasn't powered. I tried putting in a W2K disk, but it insisted I put in the XP pro. Originally, I could tell it to boot from CD by pressing F2 to get into BIOS, but now, it ignores me and goes straight to the choice of XP Pro (which gets stuck) or Previous OS, which of course isn't there anymore, so nothing happens. If I wait till Monday, I can get a restore CD from a similar laptop. Will it let me boot from it? Is there anything besides F2 to get into BIOS?
 
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What make/model is the laptop?
Try holding down the Del key as you power up.
Try holding down the Esc key as you boot up.

The BIOS will have some way to let you choose the boot device order. Once you can get into it. If it isn't password protected and you don't have the password.

See if you can borrow a full XP disk just to erase all the partitions and then start again with you OEM disk - also see if you can copy that OEM disk on another PC which will kind of prove whether the CD is at fault or not and the copy may well work. (If using Nero to copy it choose verify after copy)

The only legal disk you can use to install XP is the OEM one that came with the machine originally. You can make a copy of that though. Providing you don't use it in another PC.

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]
 
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I'll try those startup things. I looked at the CD again, and it's not OEM. I saw OEM on it before, but it turns out it actually said 'Not for OEM...' The laptop's an HP zt1000 series.

The laptop was part of the things left in a furnished condo my dad bought. No original CD. However the CD I have is licensed for multiuse, and I've installed it in several laptops before.

I did get into BIOS a couple times before starting the installation, so there's no password
 
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Nope, didn't work. I'm giving up until I can find another XP CD to see if it will get past the error and finish the installation.
 
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I should have said that any full disk you own can be used or the original OEM disk. You can't use an OEM from another PC though.

Having said that - F2 should get you into the BIOS on that machine. That machine's BIOS doesn't let you do much, but it does let you set the boot order.

I suspect the machine is not in good working order if you can't force it to boot the CD and start again.

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]
 
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F2 is not getting me into BIOS anymore.
 
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OK, I can get into BIOS- I just have to pull the hard drive loose before restarting. But when I try to boot from the CD (after pushing the HDD back in), I get this message:
Boot CD-ROM type: Non-Emulation Booting
CDBOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR

So I'm wondering- I have a W2K installation disk. Should I use that to repartition and format the hard drive, then try the XP again? Or I could install W2K, then use the XP CD to upgrade to XP. Would that be more likely to work?

By the way, here's the whole text of the error message I've been getting while trying to install XP:

Error: SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file
D:\i386\asms\6000\MSFT\VCTRL\VCRTL.MAN on line 11

Installation failed: D:\i386\asms. Error Message: Data error(cyclic redundancy check).
 
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Of the possible workarounds suggested in those, the only one that might help me is to see if the Omnibook CD drive at work is interchangeable with my CD burner drive. It sounds like a couple other people had the same problem installing off a CD burner, but not when they switched to a CD drive. I'll check Monday.

My W2K disk won't run due to the same NTLDR problem.
 
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Oh no.... are you using an original XP cd (one without a SP slipstreamed)?...

that used to be a problem, way back, where speedier drives would fault the install process...

if it is an original cd, then I would suggest you slipstream it, if the change of the burner through a CD ROM does not work...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
 
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I have no idea what slipstreamed means. It's XP SP2.
 
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Slipstreaming.

That would cover the situation where you merge a Service Pack or Windows Updates to an older XP CD to create and produce a slipstreamed and updated version of the XP CD.

See - "You Receive a File Copy Error During Setup"

310064 - HOW TO: Troubleshoot Windows XP Problems During Installation When You Upgrade from Windows 98 or Windows Me

Have you tried the Bios set to any Safe Defaults, or turned off any Bios Scanning?
 
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