Please help! Had an old Maxtor HD on my PIII 450mHz system that wouldn't allow me to re-install an OS after I had formatted it... so I bought a new Maxtor hard drive and I am having the SAME issues. I can format the drives, but when it starts to install the .dll files, it says that certain files are unable to be copied properly. I tried a different OS disk (win 2k pro and win XP pro) and neither of them work. In fact I tried using 4 totally different disks borrowed from friends, yet I get the same issue always. So I am tempted to think that the issue is something other than my copy of 2k pro or XP pro. Any suggestions?
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Thanks Ed for the quick reply! The thing is I have at least 256MB of RAM on my system,... AND strange as it is, I already HAD Win2K on my old drive and things seemed fine then. I needed to format my hd because I was just plain running out of space, so I copied all the files I needed and formatted. Could that still be a memory issue?
When you start getting wierd stuff like this you need to suspect memory. You are running under DOS for the copies and it is a matter of read and store then write. If you have 2 sticks , you might swap them, or try one only with whatever will load with half.
There are other problems that will cause it , just first elimination needs to be memory.
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There are other problems that will cause it , just first elimination needs to be memory.
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Dwight, thanks for the post.. um.. stupid question...How do I "jump my CMOS"... and by resetting my BIOS do you mean just taking out the motherboard battery or actually hitting "reset all settings" in my bios directory? Thanks again for your help.
Reset to defaults, then setting specials should do it.
Battery removal will do it also by forcing defaults on powerup with an original date.
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Battery removal will do it also by forcing defaults on powerup with an original date.
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Yes! Edfair, you are the bomb! I took out two RAM sticks and tried it that way, and sure enough, I was able to install everything just fine. As I type, the OS is installing on my new hd. Thanks a million. Now... I hope that after all is set, I will be able to install those sticks back in without any problems. Thanks Dwight for your input as well, fortunately I didn't have to mess with the BIOS, but I will remember that tip for future reference. Take care!
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