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Windows install CRC error
Posted: 2006-10-24 01:26pm
by His Divine Shadow
I am trying to install a copy of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on my parents computer. When I install it it gets to the point where it starts copying and there it always fails with a CRC error. The CD is scratchfree and it does the same with my XP SP2 disc as well.
They have bought an HP Pavilion media blabla something, good allround specs I thought and a good buy for their first computer, but maybe it's fucking shit on the inside? I really doubt it's actually a CRC error from what I've seen on the net.
Posted: 2006-10-24 01:42pm
by Glocksman
HP has sourced components from both good OEM's such as ASUS and from really dodgy ones such as Trigem.
Does their HP system recovery CD set install normally?
Posted: 2006-10-24 01:55pm
by His Divine Shadow
Glocksman wrote:HP has sourced components from both good OEM's such as ASUS and from really dodgy ones such as Trigem.
Does their HP system recovery CD set install normally?
Didn't get one of those I noticed and remarked to my parents.
Posted: 2006-10-24 02:10pm
by Glocksman
His Divine Shadow wrote:Glocksman wrote:HP has sourced components from both good OEM's such as ASUS and from really dodgy ones such as Trigem.
Does their HP system recovery CD set install normally?
Didn't get one of those I noticed and remarked to my parents.
Then it's probably got a hidden partition on the hard drive that'll restore the system to 'as new' configuration.
Posted: 2006-10-24 02:14pm
by His Divine Shadow
Yeah but it's in finnish, the reason for the reinstall was to give my parents an OS in swedish. It did work to install an old copy of Windows XP, not even SP1.