Generally speaking, installing Windows XP, either Home or Professional, is a walk in the park. Guided by pretty colors, loading bars that beam back and forwards and constant Microsoft messages that reassure you that you have made a worth while purchase, which is Microsoft Windows XP. However, at this important stage of file decompression, decoding and decrypting and extracting tyrant sized Windows files, odds are that your computer is highly susceptible to fault at this stage. However, theoretically speaking, certain problems with install might cause a lot of variables to turn sour, and as a whole, cause your install of Windows XP to become possessed to the core. Thankfully, most problems are solvable by yourself, just before you use the hammer, miscellaneous computer accessory, or your fist to manually correct the issue.
We have researched and listed 5 of the most common Windows XP install problems and have outlined their cure and we have also provided additional support to search the cure for your problem if it is not one of the 5 most common.
1. Problem 307119
There are no error messages with this fault. Your computer hangs and crashes after typing your username and password straight after ‘upgrading’ Windows XP over Windows 98, Windows 98 Second edition or Windows ME. Microsoft’s resolution is simple, manually restart computer. It is rather concerning to try and estimate how restarting your computer, in the long term, actually fixes the problem. You can find the documented issue here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307119
2. Problem 320397
This problem gives you an error message “NTLDR is missing” when you start your computer. The evil possessing your computer is rather complex. When you copy many large files to a root folder, the master file table allocation index (MFT) does not reduce to its original size, and therefore causes some hard disk issues. As complicated as it sounds, the resolution is as well, requiring boot disks and diagnostic tools to fix the problem. Since I have personally experienced this, installing Windows Professional onto Windows XP Home, fixing it was very frustrating and time consuming. Make sure you leave fixing this problem to a weekend, you’ll need it! You can find the documented issue here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320397
(Note: this article number changes a lot due to discoveries about this issue, if the problem number is not the same as listed here, search ‘NTLDR’ in one of the methods listed at the end of this article)
3. Problem 307153
This problem exists when you upgrade from Windows 98, Windows 98 Second edition, Windows ME or Windows XP Home (all to Windows XP Professional). This cause is when the install setup does not delete a temporary folder during removal. The simple cure is renaming the folder that the setup did not delete. However it’s a little harder that it appears. You can find the documented issue here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307153
4. Problem 310760
This problem is when the installation of Windows XP halts when the message of “Setup is starting Windows” is displayed. This error is caused by a number of variables. However, the most common is an incompatibly old motherboard BIOS or SATA disk drivers that aren’t loaded. You can find the documented issue here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310760
5. Problem 313041
This error is when “i386Win9xupgW95upg.dll” cannot be loaded and installed when Windows XP is being installed over Windows 98, Windows 98 Second edition or Windows ME. You can resume the installation of that component by manually launching the installer for that component that failed to automatically install. You can find the documented issue here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313041
If, and it is anticipated, your particular error is not in this article, and you can’t find them on Microsoft’s Support Site, all your problems should be solvable at Helpwithwindows.com:
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/setup05.html.
Windows-Help.NET links articles on the Official Microsoft Support Site, and allows a prompt access to information about your setup issue, without using Microsoft’s KB (Knowledge Base) search tool, which when writing this article, I simply could not find any information of 3 of the most common errors above. Using Windows-Help.NET is a must to find an answer to your problem, without wasting a month looking for it.
hi,
when i put the xp cd in and it comes to the part where you have to agree to the licence by pressing f8 nothing hapeens when i do that please help why does that happen i have tried three different keyboards and also two xp cds but the same problem
My PC was infected; I re-portioned the drive with Disk Manager then tried to install XP sp2. Setup copied files after copying completes a blue screen appears with installation options and PC shutdown with 3 long and 1 short beep.
Earlier I was facing problem with TV tuner application software. Can anyone help me out?
I’ve had the most frustrating weekend with a friends computer. I have installed XP many times and this is the first time I’ve had this issue:
If I install any version of windows below service pack 2 the PC gets to a point in the “Installing devices” section of the windows install and then resets, over and over. It just won’t allow me to install past that point. Any ideas?
Dear Roy,
i purchased a new PC and when i started to install Windows XP it is giveing message “The file pcmcia.sys is corrupted”
and setup fail.
I checked everything is ok but why its happening.
i have been used current CD to installation with other Pc its ok with that and no warning.
Please help me to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance.
I did a clean re-install of Windows XP Pro SP2.
I have 3 physical drives connected - one on each of the two SATA channels and the 3rd on the PATA channel along with a CD/DVD drive also on the PATA channel.
On SATA channel 1, I installed a new hard drive. The only way I could get the XP Setup program to see this new disc as the C drive (rather than D, E, or F) was to disconnect the other drives - except for the CD drive.
During the install, I partitioned the new drive.
After the install, Windows Explorer recognizes the drives as such:
C - local drive (1st partion of new disc 1)
D - 2nd SATA drive
E - CD/DVD drive
F - 2nd partion of disc 1
G - PATA drive
Everything seemed fine, but after a couple weeks I received a disc configuration error on bootup.
When I insert the Windows disc to attempt a repair/recovery, the Setup program sees my Windows install on the D drive.
I cannot perform bootcfg /rebuild as the Windows installation can’t be found. chkdsk seems to work ok and afterwards the system boots up fine, but after a day or so I get the same configuration error on bootup.
Any ideas…?
And why would Windows Recovery see my Windows installation on the D drive???
I replaced a small 40gb hdd drive with 320 gb drive and started to install windows xp on to the new drive. After I had formatted it to ntfs and copied the xp files on to it, I switched off the installation during the reboot. On returning to complete the install I was unable to restart the install, receiving the error message ” A disk read error occurred” press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
But to no avail, just repeats the message.
I tried Fdisk but it won’t recognize the C: drive.
Can anyone help?
I have just recently purchased a dell laptop from a friend and it was working fine the only thing was at the bottom right hand corner this msg was popping up counting down days for windows.it has windows xp.after it was done counting down days it no longer lets me long onto windows it say i have to finish the installation progress and is asking for a product key # the previous owner said he doesnt have the original disc but he gave me 2 different windows xp discs but when i put them in it still goes through the same process.So im stuck i dont know what to do i cant reinstall i cant do anything but while trying to go through the setup process at the product key entry point it says go online for assistance which comes to a page that no longer exists but i can browse the internet from there but without a start menu volume control or anything.Can any1 help me with this issue please??????????????????/
hi, i have the blue screen of death and cant get rid of it. Ive had it before and got rid of it, but i lost the codes to enter into the recovery console, does anyone know them?
Has anyone had dealings with these 6 dll files?
letotaroma.dll, kitasijo.dll, e47c075d.dll, zujobato.dll, CPMe74f34c1.dll, homahiho.dll. I have them reoccuring during startup and explorer execution. I have ran several different types of malware scans as well as virus scans, (which I dont think its a virus), and had no luck removing them. I ran a smitfraud fix for the OS and register but was unable to clean them out. I can rid the system of attached files and remove from msconfig but they seem to re-generate themselves. I checked several sources for these files but no one has any info on same. If anyone else has had these problem files what steps did you take to remove them? Thanks
hi i have windows vista installed on drive-C and want to install XP on drive-D to have dual boot. i tried to install xp but after copying files, windows restart but doesn’t reboot after appearing the message: “PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT FROM CD ROM”. i tried to press space keyboard but comes again to the first phase of installation. please help
i recently purchased a barebones scalio e media computer and installed a 320 gig sata drive and dvd rewriter installed windows media edition on it and it worked fine although i did think it strangethat the hard drive was `h`rather than `c`as normal.however it worked fine until it stared asking me for a number to activate it.the number i was given did not work so rather than purchase a new one from microsoft i decided to instal win xp that i already owned for another computer.now the strange thing was that when i tried to install it on the scalio it could not find the hard drive,so ,after a lot of faffing about i eventually got it to recognise the hard drive,but now it will only install up until the first restart,then it just starts the whole install again from the begining over and over again.any suggestions please ,it`s slowly driving me up the wall.thank in anticipation Ray Smith
Hi, i’am trying to re install XP Pro on to a Winfast K8S755A GEKRS 754 pin AMD Athlon64 Processor with a Maxtor 80Gb HDD and i gig RAM the PC was working ok a year ago, then a friend gave me the PC to fix, I have installed XP on a few PC’s so I know how it should go, I have never had this error message before, I have formatted the HDD so its clean, took HDD out of PC reconnected into my test PC and formatted the HDD and then replaced into the PC. Booted from XP Pro CD and Windows setup starts loading setup files needed for installation of XP and gets near the end of this stage then there is a blue screen with..
The entry “perc2.sys” in the [Source Disk File] section of the INF file is corrupt or missing.
I have tried installation using two different XP Pro installation disks. I have taken HDD out and placed into my test PC and run a HDD regeneration program and Hirens Boot CD 8.7 and checked HDD for errors all clean no problems at all. I replaced HDD into original PC and set the HDD on master setting and on CS and tried re installing XP same error message. I have tried a new HDD Maxtor 120 Gb set as master still same message I am beginning to think there is a problem with the motherboard, any one know what the problem is and a sollution… Many thanx Budds
after i press f8 in license agreement windows xp pro setup the error message came up its said ” windows cannot find the previous windows installed” what this mean and how can I fix it. any help? this the second time i reformatted this computer…
hi, i have a problem that cannot install windows xp at all, i put the windows xp cd and start boot from cd. then when loading in the xp blue screen, suddenly it restart, i change the hard disk and cd-rom drive, still cannot install, i use the same windows xp cd into another computer, it work properly, i check the bios, all is ok, i don’t no its really motherboard problem or the settings in bios, i try to install win 98 in first but it msi board dint support. Plz help me….
How much memory do you have?
What CPU do you have?
MAKE SURE you detach any connect hardware (printers, com port devices)
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Check BIOS settings - Boot device 1 - CD
Turn off Seek other boot devices
Try again.
I have tried installing XP Pro on my Toshiba Tecra A6 EZ6411. I have a new hard drive that i put in it my self. It runs Ubuntu just fine. When I try to format my hard drive to put xp on it i choose windows NTFS. and it goes to the progess screen. and it sits at 0% or some times gets to 1% but after coming back after a good night’s sleep. IT’S STILL AT 1%! what do i do? I’m quite computer savy. Please help
after formatting my c: drive and while instaling the XP-sp2 first it working properly upto copying files and after rebooting and at the time of installing windows it saying disk checking error. how i can install xp
i too have above problem
my computer is not working correctly, When i turn it on it goes to the start up screen right then it says it has a error with loading some file. then when i log on and try to go to a website to look at pictures it wont show pictures unless i right click on it and click show picture. Please help me.
after entering my username and password winxp pro starts the loading process, but doesnt go as far as the desktop stage. Before it loads a blank screen and the icons on the desktop the computer says its saving all files and shutting down windows. And a few minutes and windows is starting to start back up again. and the process repeats itself. what should or can i do to fix this problem.???
how do i load windows xp professional from the cd. and my computer has winxp pro but the installation cd i have is for winxp home edition. can i install home edition on top of profesional edition?
I recently purchased a new hard drive when my orginal hard drive crashed. I tried to reinstall Windows XP pro, (( using the 6 floppys and the oem cd.)) and it installs fine and then it restarts. XP logo comes up changes to a light blue screen. brings up an error message * An invalid parameter was passed to a service or function. and the computer auto restarts. Any and all help is appreciated !
Hello,
I have ubuntoo 8.04 installed currently on my laptop.I now want to install xp also in partition , while booting from xp cd , it showed following error:
system could not found any hard disk drives installed on ur system . make sure that disks are turned on.press f3 to exit
on pressing f3 system just restarts.
please send me solution for that.
i was installing windows xp after i got the error that file c:win32 was missing or dameged i used the windows xp cd to reinstall again having cleared everything my dell computer boots but the windows dont appear or even load the if any one have dell computer has it happened like this? the dell sign keep booting but its not getting anything
if anyone know anything about this .can you send me email at bilicel@yahoo.co.uk
I restarted my computer in safe mode since i couldnt delete a game folder.After restart It never loaded windows XP but it shows a black page with options like SAFE MODE, SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING, LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION, START WINDOWS NORMALLY. If I choose any of those option,the system restarts and ends up in the same page.I tried to run recovery console using windows XP CD.But it says that it could not repair the computer since its in safe mode.At last I started to re-install XP and got the blue screen with error message STOP : 0X00000050 (0XE128E7B1,0X00000001,0X8081AE7E,0X00000001) I couldnt proceed further and it keeps on repeating when I try again and again.I am extremely frustrated and dont know what to do.. Can any one help???