Hi,
My mums laptop had a problem so I decided to back everything up and reinstall Windows XP.
Backed everything up fine and then inserted windows xp disc and went to boot from CD.
It got to the drive selection page fine and I told it to format the drive as FAT32(Its only 30gb). It got to around 80% and failed so I decided to take the drive out and put it in a USB caddy. I then formatted the drive on my PC and put the drive back in the laptop.
Now the laptop recognises the HDD, I select "dont format leave as it is" and it starts to copy the Windows installation files to the disc, but when it gets to drivers.cab it says error can't copy the file due to CD or HDD error.
The CD works fine as Ive tried it in my PC and Mac and it spins up fine and reads fine. The HDD was formatted and works fine as far as I know, so waht could it be? Dodgy DVD drive? Anyway I can try another DVD drive to install it from or would I have to buy one to try it?
Thanks for any help!
My mums laptop had a problem so I decided to back everything up and reinstall Windows XP.
Backed everything up fine and then inserted windows xp disc and went to boot from CD.
It got to the drive selection page fine and I told it to format the drive as FAT32(Its only 30gb). It got to around 80% and failed so I decided to take the drive out and put it in a USB caddy. I then formatted the drive on my PC and put the drive back in the laptop.
Now the laptop recognises the HDD, I select "dont format leave as it is" and it starts to copy the Windows installation files to the disc, but when it gets to drivers.cab it says error can't copy the file due to CD or HDD error.
The CD works fine as Ive tried it in my PC and Mac and it spins up fine and reads fine. The HDD was formatted and works fine as far as I know, so waht could it be? Dodgy DVD drive? Anyway I can try another DVD drive to install it from or would I have to buy one to try it?
Thanks for any help!