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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to
place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. Can someone please point me to a solution? I know the disk is not damaged as I tested it with an installation on an other system and it worked fine. Just not on the one it goes to. Thanks. Al. |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
Allen Drake wrote:
I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. Can someone please point me to a solution? I know the disk is not damaged as I tested it with an installation on an other system and it worked fine. Just not on the one it goes to. Thanks. Al. Are all your storage disks connected to IDE or SATA ports ? (SCSI would be included in that list, but who uses SCSI...) Not something USB in the way, like a USB card reader, USB pen drive or the like ? Sometimes, an unloaded USB card reader "eats" four drive letters. If it was something like that, just unplug the internal cabling until the install is finished. Or just leave the damn thing unplugged for good, as you see fit. Another possibility, is you're currently connected to a network share, and network shares and things like USB storage can conflict. I doubt it's any of those, but that's all that comes to mind. ******* One other thing, when you say "E: is the drive I am installing to", don't forget that virtually every environment you work in, will letter the drives differently. For example, in the last hour, my D: partition has been E: in another environment, and G: in yet another. The things just don't stand still. It could be, where you're looking, the letter has moved and in fact you should be just playing along with whatever letter it claims it is. So, if while installing, it said it was installing to "G:", by the time you boot again after the process is finished, it might be C:. You never know. For data partitions, you can use Disk Management to change the drive letter. That's not quite as good an option for the OS partition, since some of the software is quite sensitive to the drive letter (MS Office perhaps ? "Regular" software doesn't care.). Paul |
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:31:18 -0500, Paul wrote:
Allen Drake wrote: I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. Can someone please point me to a solution? I know the disk is not damaged as I tested it with an installation on an other system and it worked fine. Just not on the one it goes to. Thanks. Al. Are all your storage disks connected to IDE or SATA ports ? (SCSI would be included in that list, but who uses SCSI...) Not something USB in the way, like a USB card reader, USB pen drive or the like ? Sometimes, an unloaded USB card reader "eats" four drive letters. If it was something like that, just unplug the internal cabling until the install is finished. Or just leave the damn thing unplugged for good, as you see fit. Another possibility, is you're currently connected to a network share, and network shares and things like USB storage can conflict. I doubt it's any of those, but that's all that comes to mind. ******* One other thing, when you say "E: is the drive I am installing to", don't forget that virtually every environment you work in, will letter the drives differently. For example, in the last hour, my D: partition has been E: in another environment, and G: in yet another. The things just don't stand still. It could be, where you're looking, the letter has moved and in fact you should be just playing along with whatever letter it claims it is. So, if while installing, it said it was installing to "G:", by the time you boot again after the process is finished, it might be C:. You never know. For data partitions, you can use Disk Management to change the drive letter. That's not quite as good an option for the OS partition, since some of the software is quite sensitive to the drive letter (MS Office perhaps ? "Regular" software doesn't care.). Paul I do have a card reader present that I was going to use to keep some drivers on but I can connect that after the install. I have a PCI SATA/RAID card present but no drives are attached. I will look closer and remove the SATA card and unplug the reader. Thanks Paul. Al. |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:31:18 -0500, Paul wrote:
Allen Drake wrote: I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. Can someone please point me to a solution? I know the disk is not damaged as I tested it with an installation on an other system and it worked fine. Just not on the one it goes to. Thanks. Al. Are all your storage disks connected to IDE or SATA ports ? (SCSI would be included in that list, but who uses SCSI...) Not something USB in the way, like a USB card reader, USB pen drive or the like ? Sometimes, an unloaded USB card reader "eats" four drive letters. If it was something like that, just unplug the internal cabling until the install is finished. Or just leave the damn thing unplugged for good, as you see fit. Another possibility, is you're currently connected to a network share, and network shares and things like USB storage can conflict. I doubt it's any of those, but that's all that comes to mind. ******* One other thing, when you say "E: is the drive I am installing to", don't forget that virtually every environment you work in, will letter the drives differently. For example, in the last hour, my D: partition has been E: in another environment, and G: in yet another. The things just don't stand still. It could be, where you're looking, the letter has moved and in fact you should be just playing along with whatever letter it claims it is. So, if while installing, it said it was installing to "G:", by the time you boot again after the process is finished, it might be C:. You never know. For data partitions, you can use Disk Management to change the drive letter. That's not quite as good an option for the OS partition, since some of the software is quite sensitive to the drive letter (MS Office perhaps ? "Regular" software doesn't care.). Paul Update: All went well after I removed the SATA/Raid PCI card. Thanks again Paul Al. |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
"Allen Drake" wrote in message
... I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. When instal routines give us a prompt like this, we are usually able to /Browse to the correct folder (disk and drive.) Repost telling us whether you can / Browse to the right location. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
One other thing you can do is delete the partition that you want to install to by pressing the L key when prompted that way it will format that partition before installing |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:58:01 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
wrote: "Allen Drake" wrote in message .. . I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. When instal routines give us a prompt like this, we are usually able to /Browse to the correct folder (disk and drive.) Repost telling us whether you can / Browse to the right location. I was unable to browse or change the E:\ device but I am now successful with the install because I removed the SATA/RAID PCI card. It seems it was causing the halt of install even though there were no drives attached. The only problem I see now is "Multimedia Audio Controller" unable to find driver and remains with the big yellow Question mark. I am using an Intel D845GVB desktop board. I have downloaded and installed drivers I thought would fix this from the Intel site but I can locate them after they unzipped. Still looking............... |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:26:43 -0600, yukonron
wrote: One other thing you can do is delete the partition that you want to install to by pressing the L key when prompted that way it will format that partition before installing I had tried that several times with the same results but as I posted in previous post I have been successful with the install. I am having difficulties getting my Netpromax DVR board recognized as it has been some years since I first installed it and it now seems Netpromax has gone belly up. Something to do with seeing "Netpromax 2ND Master in device manager but am missing a 2ND Slave appearance. I may never get this fixed and after all the trouble I may just end up replacing the old drive back in the system |
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Strange Re-install issue WinXP Pro
In article , Allen Drake wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:58:01 -0500, "Don Phillipson" wrote: "Allen Drake" wrote in message . .. I am trying a clean re-install of Win XP Pro but I get a message to place CD in drive and access E:\i386 but E: is the drive I am installing to and not a CD Rom. I am using the OEM disk that came with the machine. I have searched Google for the same problem but I have found nothing that fits my problem. When instal routines give us a prompt like this, we are usually able to /Browse to the correct folder (disk and drive.) Repost telling us whether you can / Browse to the right location. I was unable to browse or change the E:\ device but I am now successful with the install because I removed the SATA/RAID PCI card. It seems it was causing the halt of install even though there were no drives attached. The only problem I see now is "Multimedia Audio Controller" unable to find driver and remains with the big yellow Question mark. I am using an Intel D845GVB desktop board. I have downloaded and installed drivers I thought would fix this from the Intel site but I can locate them after they unzipped. Still looking............... Go here and run this utility. It will autodetect your intel motherboard and will download the Sigmatel AC97 drivers for your board. http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect |
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