Q: The disk I'm using will install windows XP to halfway and then it will say that there are files missing from the system restore disk and hence windows may not run correctly. I then procede to install and it will go halfway along and then the screen will go blue with writing about the install failing and then it will restart and just sit. I'm really annoyed as I'm had so much trouble since I installed this new ram as you can see from my previous question. I hope you can help, is my computer destroyed? I'm writing this from my friends laptop. The computer is a packard bell and the recovery disk I got with it strangely enough is not reinstalling windows, it's come up with the same screen again that the windows recovery disk is missing some files and hence the installation will not complete, it's now restarted agghh!!
A: hi wrighty stop worrying mate,this isnt unusual and i recently repaired a pc and during the reinstallation of windows a similar problem occured with me the reason for the failure during installation was a dirty cd-rom,which didnt suprise me as it was a old 52x speed cd rom so i asked the owner wether they were happy for me to fit a new optical drive(dvdrw) and thus fitted the new dvdrw drive after this the windows reinstallation went ok,no errors and everything went smoothly however the problem can also be due to a damaged or dirty disk,and to work round this you need to borrow another windows disk from a friend,dont worry about the different product key,you are not asked for this until the end of the installation,and then you can enter your product key(found on th p.c case) ,even though the disk belongs to someone else you can still enter yours however you must only use another windows xp disk(upgrade or retail) but not another recovery disk,this is because each recovery disk is unique to the specific pc,try using another recovery disk on your p.c and you will experience all kinds of strange problems with reference to your new memory try swapping the position of the modules,the largest of the modules should be put in "dimm1" and the next largest in "dimm2" and so on,and if problems still arise then try another configuration pc memory is sold in budget models,these are alot cheaper but also have a higher percentage of bad modules,i have been lucky however try another module if possible and see if the problems persist any problems let me know good luck mate !