Windows XP Pro installation errors

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

I've seen the exact same symptoms on several XP installations that ended up
being faulty RAM :-)

"kah" <kah@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6F149EE7-FC5D-4DFD-946F-E204138C47E4@microsoft.com...
> Having been attempting to install XP Pro on a new PC. Using a MSI
> PT880-Neo
> motherboard with intel prescot P4 2.4 CPU, 256MB DDR memory, 40GB hard
> drive
> and cdrom. Installation will format hard drive completely, but when the
> process begins to copy files needed for installation, it continually stops
> at
> various files saying they cannot be copied. Have tried two different XP
> discs with the ssame results. Anybody have any answers?
> --
> kah

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Skip those files and continue installation. Then copy i386 folder from XP cd
to hard drive and run an in-place upgrade. For that open i386 folder in the
harddrive and run winnt32.exe file. All the best !!!!

"kah" wrote:

> Having been attempting to install XP Pro on a new PC. Using a MSI PT880-Neo
> motherboard with intel prescot P4 2.4 CPU, 256MB DDR memory, 40GB hard drive
> and cdrom. Installation will format hard drive completely, but when the
> process begins to copy files needed for installation, it continually stops at
> various files saying they cannot be copied. Have tried two different XP
> discs with the ssame results. Anybody have any answers?
> --
> kah