Having trouble installing win xp home

[whannanna]

Having trouble installing windows xp Home full version.

put a new hd in my computer b/c the other one died...

P4 1.6ghz
120gb WD
512 DDR400 Ram
NEC 16XDVDROM
Lite-on 52X CDRW


Every time i try to install ,.. i format the drive... i get the copying setup files to hard disk stuff.... and then it copies a bunch of files then stops and says " blank.dll did not copy correct" or any file . mostly dll,exe and sys files ... then you press enter and some files it will recopy them,.. but others you have to skip if you want to finsh setup ... but it still dies before setup finishes,..... what is causing this,...

More than likely bad media. Is your disk scratched or anything like that? Try installing from the other optical drive to see if it doesn't read it better. You will either have to change the boot order in the BIOS or change them physically w/ jumpers or cable positions, depending on how you have it setup.

[whannanna]

Its a Brand new xp home disc just got it yesterday. and both drives do the same thing.

[Dj-Icer]

you install xp and then format? shouldnt you be formatting after you have created numbers of partition at fix disk 1st?

sorry if im wrong..

[whannanna]

im not using many partitions if thats what your asking,.. its formatted in NTFS and i cant format it in fat32.... xp setup wont let me. and if i Fdisk it i dont know what will happen ,... maybe i should try that i know that DOS can only format a 32.2 Gb and less hd with FAT 32. i guess im stuck for bit

I think he means during the install, it formats the drives then starts the copy operation and then gives errors.
You say it's a new drive, have you tried the mfr's utilities to see if it's okay? You could have just gotten a DUD.

WD's Data Lifeguard and DLG

You can format well over 32GB w/ FAT32. It's the mobo's that can't handle the size usually. FAT32 goes up to like 4 Terabytes, I can't remember exactly.

Anyway, get yourself a 9X or Me disk from Bootdisk.com and FDISK to your heart's content. Make it a 120GB partition if you want, just opt not to format during the install.

Have you tried a different IDE cable perchance?

EDIT - I think it's 2 TB's, not 4.

[whannanna]

well... the Hd i have works because i can copy and write and read and stuff... and i got it tested for bad sectors, write errors etc,.. and the test said nothing. the ide cables im replacing with the new rounds i just got.... im asking microsoft,.... and they want me to pay money for them to help me,.... the more money i put down on this computer the more im hating microsoft.... pay this, pay that... i hate that crap........

[whannanna]

yea your totally correct you can format it over 32 gb,... but DOS wont let you.....

[jagnorm]

I have a 40gb hd, I can't tell you how many times i've formated it or run fdisk on it. Do you have an old 98x boot disk. If so boot to it. Run fdisk, re-boot, then format, then boot to your xp disk or use set up disks.