Old tower not booting up. Error message recognition?

You can do it from the partition screen,delete a partition,then select that partition to install on, you do know that with a clean install that you will have to download drivers after...
 
Is this a regular store brand computer or homemade?
if regular store brand then you can go to the website of that brand and download drivers for that model.
what is brand and model of it?
 
If FAT32 was installed on the old system, should I install FAT32 on this installation? Or could I do NTFS?

By the way, I seriously want to thank you. You're awesome.
 
cabinfever1977 said:
Is this a regular store brand computer or homemade?
if regular store brand then you can go to the website of that brand and download drivers for that model.
what is brand and model of it?
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Not exactly sure. No stickers or logo on it. Looks like a Gateway to me.. Theres a serial number on the back, but no model number. But i'll worry about that later, once I actually get XP installed .
 
Maybe i'm just not being patient, but it's been 10 minutes and it's still on 0%.

Should I just come back over tomorrow and let it format overnight?
 
cabinfever1977 said:
you could select quick format and its alot faster
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I waited through the night, and called back this morning and it HAS formatted. I'l heading over there about 3:30/4:00 eastern time to work with it. Maybe you'll be online then?

By the way, I learned in my A+ class to NEVER do quick format. So thats the reason why I went ahead and did full format.

Anyhow, thanks a lot again, and if I have any questions, I'll comment on here or shoot you a message.
 
cabinfever1977 said:
I'll be on and off throughout the day-evening-night
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It completed the process, i'm over here now trying to work on it. I entered a Valid Product key, but now it brings me to a page that says:

The file "napclientprov.mof" is on (Unknown) is needed. Type the path where the file is located, and then click OK.

Copy files from:
(A box where I can select the drives on the computer)
 
Next error message:

"An error occurred while copying file viz.wm_.
Cannot copy file to destination directory.
Click retry to retry the operation or click cancel to continue setup without copying this file"

Is this file a necessity for setup?
 
If your system is having troubles copying files for install then either the cd is scratched too badly or you have errors in the installed memory. Download and run memtest on your memory to check that first unless you know the cd is scratched.
 
johnb35 said:
If your system is having troubles copying files for install then either the cd is scratched too badly or you have errors in the installed memory. Download and run memtest on your memory to check that first unless you know the cd is scratched.
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Well the CD isn't BRAND NEW, but it's not terribly scratched either. I googled the file name and there are multiple links for download. Couldn't I just download this file after the setup?
 
Its not that easy. Some files are required when windows is installed. You can cancel copying that file, but if you run into others that can't copy then you need to figure out why. Bad cd or bad memory are the top 2 reasons.
 
Glmda.in is the next error message. Same situation, windows cannot copy file to destination directory.

How do I run this memory test?
 
johnb35 said:
To test your ram download and create a memtest bootable cd.

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-4.0a.iso.zip

Download the file and use burning software that will write ISO files to cd, just don't burn the file to a cd, it won't work. If you don't have any burning software that will write ISO files you can download IMGburn here.


http://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.5.6.0.exe

Once the cd boots it will automatically start running.
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Thanks, so do I just pop this XP CD out and cancel the setup? I have power2go, which is an ISO burning software. That will work, right?
 
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