Corrupted XP pro CD

[lobadobadingdong]

I have liscenses for xp home for my laptop, and xp pro for my desktop.

I reformatted my hard drive on my desktop for some driver issues that couldn't be resolved and I planned to re-install xp pro on it. everytime it blue screens on me while installing (several different codes pointing mostly to ntfs errors) for unaccable boot volume. (WD diagnostics tests the drive with 0 errors)

I installed xp home on it fine, but I don't like having it this way. 1 because it's temporarily illegal (until I can get another xp pro cd) and 2. because I use rdc all the time.

I have another xp pro cd coming but it won't be here for ~8 weeks (got it from a retail chain promotional)

I've tried upgrading the xp home installation to xp pro, but it does the same thing.

any ideas?

 

[John]

Microsoft will send you a replacement for a small fee.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: John
Microsoft will send you a replacement for a small fee.

how would I go about that? customer support on thier main page?

 

[John]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;prodoffer33a&sd=GN

 

[corkyg]

Also, there are issues documented in the M$ knowledge base about some folders being made non-accessible by NTFS conversion. If you FDISK, reformat to FAT32, and then let the installed XP Pro convert to NTFS afterwards, that could be avoided and maybe give you a fresh, clean install. The message you are getting implies that your HDD is already formatted in NTFS prior to installtion of the O/S. That may be the problem.

 

[Dre]

bump

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: corky-g
Also, there are issues documented in the M$ knowledge base about some folders being made non-accessible by NTFS conversion. If you FDISK, reformat to FAT32, and then let the installed XP Pro convert to NTFS afterwards, that could be avoided and maybe give you a fresh, clean install. The message you are getting implies that your HDD is already formatted in NTFS prior to installtion of the O/S. That may be the problem.

I tried formatting it with a win98 boot disk to fat32, it still didn't work.