Has anyone ever has this problem.........

I'm using the same Windows XP CD that I used to reformat my HDD's. But
today while the CD was copying the files into the HDD there were many
files that could not be copied into my HDD.

Could the CD be going bad??? Or could it be something else?

Thank you

R_ACE1 wrote:
> Has anyone ever has this problem.........
>
> I'm using the same Windows XP CD that I used to reformat my HDD's. But
> today while the CD was copying the files into the HDD there were many
> files that could not be copied into my HDD.
>
> Could the CD be going bad??? Or could it be something else?

Yes and yes. ;-)

1. Bad XP CD; or
2. Bad CD drive; or
3. Bad hard drive; or
4. Bad RAM; or.... etc.


Malke
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R_ACE1 wrote:
> Has anyone ever has this problem.........
>
> I'm using the same Windows XP CD that I used to reformat my HDD's.
> But today while the CD was copying the files into the HDD there
> were many files that could not be copied into my HDD.
>
> Could the CD be going bad??? Or could it be something else?

CDs do get to a point where they are unreadable - they do wear like anything
else.
CD drives also can go bad.
Cables can be loosely connected.
Hard disk drives can go bad.
Memory can effect this as well.

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"R_ACE1" <R_ACE1.2tgcye@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> Has anyone ever has this problem.........
>
> I'm using the same Windows XP CD that I used to reformat my HDD's. But
> today while the CD was copying the files into the HDD there were many
> files that could not be copied into my HDD.
>
> Could the CD be going bad??? Or could it be something else?
>

It's most likely to be the CD drive.

The laser lens might want a clean on the CD.... or the laser diode
maybe losing it's emission.

The light has to travel through the optics, reflected back from the
disc back through the optics again and then on to the sensor... any
dust build up on the lens will cause attenuation of the beam, since this
'has' to pass through the lens twice you get double loss so to speak.

Or the disc might want a clean with a soft cloth.... while your at it
why not create a copy - just in case...!

Davy

Check this one out. I connected the HDD into another computer. I also
used the same CD (that wasn't booting up). The drive formated and XP
was sucessfully copied into the HDD (sucsess!). NOW after hooking up
the HDD back into the original computer XP is not loading??????? So I
thought ok the CD rom is going bad, I swapped cd's and tried loading XP
again. Same thing happened, files not copying....

Any ideas????

Making a copy sounds like a great idea.

I thought it was a dirty lense so I cleaned it, still nothing. Some
how it still works on my other computer than the original.

Others have told me that it could be a bad video card or someother
peripheral. Could that be a problem?? If so what would be the best way
to troubleshoot it.

I will let you know what I try and if I fixed it.

To add stressful fuel to this fire I remeoved any peripheral one by one,
same problems. I then removed all peripherals except for the video
card, still nothing. I also removed the 512 that was there and
installed another stick of 512 (same specs as the old one of course),
still nothing.
I'm going to try to swap video cards, if that dosen't work then maybe
the BIOS battery.

I'm out of ideas after that... tell you what this computer is very
mischievous. Sometimes it would go as far as copying XP files then stop
partway or cannot copy some files (never the same files) or I would get
the blue screen of death...

I now got a error message before the XP cd could boot up. The error
says:
"The system has run out of memory at line 4846 in file, setup cannot
continue" (and there is a stick of 512 in there).

Any ideas will always be appreciated.

Thank you,
Ray