wtf could be wrong??

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hey guys, i wonder if someone could shed some light.

windows xp last night decided some of my appz were not going to work. i suspect the drive is dying so i did a scan disk on the drive and in doing that windows found many faults.

so i figured let me reinstall to determine if it is the drive. on reinstall it had many problems. (could not copy files, general errors)

this morning i decided let me install on a another drive which it did flawlessly.

so i thought - ok let me reinstall on the dodgy drive now. NOTE: I only had one drive at a time connected to eliminate any problems.

When I try to install on the dodgy drive install fails.

In your oppinion this is a drive issue? i am not wasting money if i buy a new hard drive?
 
okay, to make triple sure i reinstalled on the drive that i know is fine - and now i get the same problems. It says it can not copy files while windows is installing????.

to explain windows xp says please point out the file on the cdrom that needs to be copied. I go there via the installer browser thing and i can see the file is on the disk, but windows says nope. I have had this problem all last night too and it does not matter which cd rom i use

i have no idea what it could be... i had this problem before i changed my RAM (all new slots used) so i dont think it is a RAM issue.

So me is completely unsure??

any ideas?
 
write zeros to the drive. the manufacturer's site normally has a prog that will do that for you. i've had a few WD drives do that after about a year. That's why I only buy Seagate now.
 
the plot thickens ;)

let me explain my architecture.

for now i have 1 x HD drive connected to channel 0 of ide 0
and i have a DVD Burner and normal dvd reader on the other ide

and scouring on the net i found some guys mentioning how you should install windows xp with one drive and one cd rom. I thought this strange cuz I was not using my DVD burner although it was connected.

I have now installed windows XP on the "dodgy" driver perfectly and now installing on the drive that i know is fine.

so far it is MUCH quicker and if this install happens without a hitch then i think the problem has been a faulty DVD burner.

Does this logic make sense?

forgot to mention when i installed windows xp on the 'dodgy' drive and i did a scan desk it came up fine.

speaking to a super techie friend on the phone he said he has had faulty DVD/CD burners do the funkiest things.
 
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Could be that u have bad sectors on the hdd.

Steps to fix :

- Do a LOW LEVEL FORMAT of hdd.It will most likely take around -+4 hrs.You need to create a bootable disk.Go to the manufactures website (seagte etc) for instructions

- Reinstall Windows
 
lol ,

Frenchie.. i see you have already mentioned the Low level format issue
 
ubercal said:
Could be that u have bad sectors on the hdd.

Steps to fix :

- Do a LOW LEVEL FORMAT of hdd.It will most likely take around -+4 hrs.You need to create a bootable disk.Go to the manufactures website (seagte etc) for instructions

- Reinstall Windows
Click to expand...

no bad sectors - problem is the dvd writer was causing crazy h/w conflicts
 
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