XP installation problems. cyclic redundancy check.

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited December 2011 in Science & Tech
I'm loading XP Home onto a Dell D610. Trying to, anyhow. It'll go through the install just fine, including the hard drive formatting section, until it gets to the first windows screen with the countdown timer on it, which always starts at 39 minutes. It reads "Setup will complete in approximately X minutes".

Then, it'll error out every time. I tried different CD's of XP, reformatting the hard drive, cleaning the CD, blowing out the CD drive tray, etc. It'll say an error has been encountered that prevents setup from continuing. Data error, cyclic redundancy check.

From what I read, this seems to be an error in copying files to the hard drive from the CD, but could it be a bad hard drive? It is a 100 GB 7200 rpm Fujitsu drive, build date of March 2006.

Any ideas? I don't want to tell the person he needs a new $100 IDE hard drive until I'm sure it's the hard drive, if it even is.

I'm going to see if the CD drive out of my HP DV6000 series or my old Latitude CPi-A366 will slide into this thing, and if it does, I'll try it.:banghead:

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    Run a HD diagnostic on it. It's probably bad.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    primesuspect wrote:
    Run a HD diagnostic on it. It's probably bad.

    Yeah, that is what cyclic redundancy check is, it is comparing what is on HD and CD. Multiple CDs are logically not bad. HD, yes, Prime.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    I've seen that with a bad CD-Rom drive. It doesn't need to be really bad just not up to the OS install.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    I did manage to get Vista installed on it, but it runs slowly. Took 2+ hours to download and install 106 updates from Microsoft Update!

    I called the owner and told him all this and how I thought it needed a new hard drive, but he said that since he rarely uses it, it would be okay if it ran slowly, as long as it runs.

    Whatever, I told him and gave him every available option that would not cost me money.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited December 2011
    1 Bad Hard Drive
    2 MEMTEST
    3 Bad IDE cables
    4 Bad ROM Drive

    ...pretty much in that order, swapping out parts to test usually confirms or disproves all!
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