Windows xp repair install, files missing

[cloud32187]

So when I load the windows XP cd up and start the repair install, it finishes copying all the files over to the HD then restarts. Then it loads to the standard installation UI but asks for a file, "asms" to be exact.

Here's the issue, there are no CD drives detected now so it cannot load the file from the disk. I have done the recommended actions provided by Microsoft aka clearing the upper/lower filters, but to no avail.

I have kind of found a workaround which involves manually copying the install files from the cd to the HD and then specifying that location during setup. It seems to work but gets stuck on "Installing Devices".


Anyone have any ideas?

 

[nlinecomputers]

Three ideas.

Bad CD-ROM drive.

Faulty XP disk. Scratched or bad ISO.

Windows is fubar'd and can't be repaired. Nuke and pave.

 

[basic]

First, I'd check the Disk Management utility to ensure that the CD drive is detected and has a drive letter mapped to it. Depending on what the issue is, you may need to remove the UpperFilter and LowerFilter registry entries for your CD drive. That should make it so that the OS displays the drive. Second, have you tried "sfc /scannow"?

 

[AndyM]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311755

Andy

 

[nlinecomputers]

Considering what he has described in the OP I think he has already tried to use that KB article.

 

[AndyM]

I didn't want to assume that he had, as assumption is the mother of all.... you know, but better to say something again, than not at all. We're all here trying to help one another

I did just have a thought though...

Other options include using a different CD/DVD drive to do the installation with.

If you Nuke and Pave, do a full format of the drive. Had too many things go weird when I haven't done this.

Andy

 

[MobileTechie]

Can be bad RAM. See: http://www.mobile-techie.com/blog/20-repair-things-are-not-always-as-they-appear.html

 

[brandonkick]

I've even had a mouse and keyboard set screw with windows installation!

Wouldn't work at my uncles shop. Took it home to my bedroom and it worked! Same XP disk, same everything except mouse and keyboard

 

[Trek PC Computers]

Test your ram. I have had this many times and after hours or time being wasted It turned out to be ram.

 

[AlaDes]

I had this issue once. A customer brought her computer in to me because it wouldn't boot sometimes and was running slow when it did. The computer booted fine when she brought it in to me but ran extremely slow as she had said. After about a week of constant rebooting the unit to try and replicate the boot issue, I couldn't find anything else wrong with it, so I called her and let her know it was ready for pickup. No sooner than she got home, she called and told me it wouldn't boot. After getting a good description of the problem, I started searching and found an article regarding bad keyboards causing systems boot failures. So, I had her bring her keyboard in with her. Although it caused no apparent problems with any of my computers, every time I connected it to her unit it would give me an OS error. A new keyboard fixed he problem.