WinXP won't install - any help?
SoLastCentury
Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Hi, I'm new here so apologies if this is an old subject you've covered already. I'm also not too tech-minded, so apologies again if I'm not describing anything specifically enough.
Anyhow:
I was running Win98 on my box until it finally got so f'ed up and buggy and slow that it had to die - possibly caused by a virus of some sort, I'm not sure. so I deleted everything, formatted the HD, and got me a nice shiny new copy of XPhome. inserted CD, set BIOS options to boot from CD, started the install process all no problems.
about halfway through I start getting errors telling me that various files either weren't copied at all or weren't copied successfully (see below for partial list). so I carried on with the install in the hope that I wasn't missing anything vital, but on reboot for the second part of the setup process I got the 'lsass.exe - endpoint format not valid' error message. from what I can gather from various forums (including this one) the fix involves fiddling with the registry, but a) that's a bit over my head, and b) surely the registry should have been deleted when I wiped the HD?
I'm not sure quite what to do next - I've tried using an app called 'killdisk' to thoroughly wipe the HD again and start over, but I've not been able to find a dos anti-virus anywhere, and I really don't want to have to shell out for a new HD. can anyone help/advise?
thanx
the files that wouldn't copy (a partial list, since there were at least a couple dozen) included:
anything that started with 'usr'
a couple that included the word 'nike'
a few that had 'rio' in them
a couple that had 'amdK' something - these last two particularly worry me, cos I'm running a AMD athlon chip on a K7 mobo.
thanx again
Anyhow:
I was running Win98 on my box until it finally got so f'ed up and buggy and slow that it had to die - possibly caused by a virus of some sort, I'm not sure. so I deleted everything, formatted the HD, and got me a nice shiny new copy of XPhome. inserted CD, set BIOS options to boot from CD, started the install process all no problems.
about halfway through I start getting errors telling me that various files either weren't copied at all or weren't copied successfully (see below for partial list). so I carried on with the install in the hope that I wasn't missing anything vital, but on reboot for the second part of the setup process I got the 'lsass.exe - endpoint format not valid' error message. from what I can gather from various forums (including this one) the fix involves fiddling with the registry, but a) that's a bit over my head, and b) surely the registry should have been deleted when I wiped the HD?
I'm not sure quite what to do next - I've tried using an app called 'killdisk' to thoroughly wipe the HD again and start over, but I've not been able to find a dos anti-virus anywhere, and I really don't want to have to shell out for a new HD. can anyone help/advise?
thanx
the files that wouldn't copy (a partial list, since there were at least a couple dozen) included:
anything that started with 'usr'
a couple that included the word 'nike'
a few that had 'rio' in them
a couple that had 'amdK' something - these last two particularly worry me, cos I'm running a AMD athlon chip on a K7 mobo.
thanx again
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Comments
yours probs are either
1) memory
2) your cdrom drive
3) hard disk.
In that order. Start by running memtest or docmemory to test your ram and we will work through the other probs
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