I/O Device Error on XP installation

[wilt]

When installing XP, the setup fails.

I have a SATA HD and have already made a driver diskette. I then go ahead and create a new partition and that seems to work fine. However, upon restart, the windows installation screen comes up and then its on the "Installing Windows" part. After a few seconds, an error message comes up. Here is what it says:

" An error has occurred that prevents setup from continuing. One of the components that windows needs could not be installed. Could not be performed because of an I/O device error"

Then I go into the system setup log and it says the same thing and also this:

Error:
Installation failed: D:\I386\asms


I do press F6 when asked to install third party driver and it looks to be working fine when installing the SATA HD drivers. Do I also need to add my VID card because a drivers CD did come with. I am also making the drive one huge partition. Is that recomended?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Wilt



Specs:
ASROCK K8S8X Mobo
80 GB SATA HD
AMD 64 Barton 3000+
2 512 sticks of RAM
MSI RX98000 Vid card

[pam123]

The problem is your cd-rom.
A google search turned up this : http://www.windows-expert.net/forum/...ge.asp?mid=368

[kev7555]

I think Pam is correct.

I used to get these type of errors when installing XP until I began using a CD burner as a reader. The problems ceased. I had this happen with several different readers, so I am of the opinion that it was a problem with the disk, not the reader.

I don't know if this is because the burner reads at a higher sampling rate or what, but it solved the problem!!

-Kev

[andyms18a]

you can also get the same error if one of your ram sticks is faulty try this prog to test them http://www.memtest86.com/