[SOLVED] Windows Won't Install

Hello,

Over the holidays by brother in law put a new mother board, hd, video and sound cards in my computer. He took it from my house and put all the hardware in at my mother in laws house and brought it back over. He also imaged my hard drive so that i wouldn't loose any of the information that i had. I was have some small problems like it freezing up on me and the sound freezing. I got pissed off and decided to start over I saved what I could on floppy and did the ugly and typed c: format c: /u after it was all said and done i went to go reinstall windows. At about 20% of "copying windows files to you computer" it says "you interupted the file copying process" it lets me look at the details and it says that its a .dll file if i skip it it goes to the next file and does it again. if i hit ok it does the same thing again. if i cancel it puts me back at the a: promt. i haven't touched anything to inteupt the process i have even tried it 5 times, any help would be appreated


Jim

 

Hi Suprvirgo, welcome to TSG.

What version of windows are you trying to install? From a CD or floppies?

And if it's a CD, is it an ORIGINAL?

 

Windows 98 SE it is a copy of my own Original it has worked before to restart my p.c. it is a CD ROM


Jim

 

Try formatting the hard drive without the /u

Just use format C:

Then try to reinstall and let us know.

SeeYa

 

I agree with Rugrat. If the format C: doesn't work try Format C: /s. The/u swith clears the MBR and DOS boot records. Since this is a "copy" of the original, I suspect that there were some system files that were not transfered. Hopefully, the /s command will do the trick. Good luck. KW1

 

I just wanted to thank you all for the help and let you knwo waht was wrong. What i did was write zeros to the drive using gwscan and then i ran f disk created my partion. i formated the drive then copyed command.com to c: then i made a win 98 directory and copyed the win98. however while i was copying it said there was an error readind drive d: so i took out the disk cleaned it and put it back in i finishied copying. I then ran setup from the c: everything worked fine. I think the root of all my probems in the first place was that the cd was a little dirty. With all the new hardware it took a while to figure out the bios and all that but everything seems ok now thats alot for you help.


Jim