Comments on: Unable to Copy File When Installing Windows XP

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:59:29 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

Funny thing you say on boot up, because this all started with the PC not booting up. I wonder if it is a bad capacitor and I am assuming on the motherboard you are saying?

The most recent troubleshooting was me using one chip of memory in each slot and then removing one at a time from different slots. With all four chips installed I received the copy file error, but with any combination of three chips in any slots it worked fine.

So end of story I purchased a new motherboard and memory and I was able to use the same CPU. I have not put it all together yet, but keep your fingers crossed it is not the CPU.

Thanks again!

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:10:57 +0000

I had the same problem with a Sony VAIO notebook. The installer starts up in 16 bit mode, and doesn’t even mess with all of the RAM until it gets to the copy process. A friend’s Dell would go through the install, then hang on boot, but that turned out to be bad capacitors keeping it from switching to 32 bit mode.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:45:40 +0000

Hello, how are you?
Thank you for the post. I have the same issue with my PC and read somewhere else it might be RAM, but I ran Memtest86 on each chip in each slot one at a time and they all passed. 4 chips of 512 each.
After the RAM passed I tried a different Windows CD, CD-Rom, ATA cables, IDE controller and still the same issue.

I am thinking now should I try to reinstall with 1 chip of Ram and try each chip seperately and see what the outcome is?

I resolved it down to the motherboard and was ready to order a new one with new RAM, but decided to see what was on line first.

Thank you and if you have any input it would be greatly appreciated,

Jerry