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Win95 Setup hangs at start of file copy.
I totally wiped and reformatted my Maxtor 8.4 GB HD to NTFS and am trying to do a clean install of XP Home. When I get to the copying files part during installation, it just hangs after somewhere between %2 and %13 of files have been installed. I reformatted, in both FAT32 and NTFS but same result every time. Help!

Fatal Exception 0E when trying to use a new profile
With the smaller HD I can get through the "copying files" portion, but when I restart Windows begins to load the setup files and then hangs. I get the following when trying to perform a clean install of Win2000 on my system: 1) When I try to create and use floppy boot disks, I get error message "Disk I/O Error"

Canīt install win2000
It hangs when at the Copying Files stage... just hangs at 17% and everything freezes up... Any other ideas? -----Original Message----- I would pull all Clean install. I just tried chaning hard drives, and still have this problem. I booted up with a boot disk, formatted hard drive, then tried the install again.

BE-6 II - HPT 366 - Win XP ??
During the setup program, as soon as I hit the Next button to start copying files (step #2), a Suwin frame comes up centered over the middle of the screen each time the Setup hangs at the same point. Running ScanDisk/RegClean is of no help. Any fixes suggesred short of refformatiing and doing a clean install?

VKD Error Update
If you cant boot from CD, format and do a clean install then it does sound a lot like hardware is the root cause here. (1) when it auto starts from CD it goes to blue screen and hangs for hours after copying files. (2) when try to install from within Win ME it reboots itself while copying files over.

HELP - Upgrading to XP RC1 (from Win2K Pro) & BAD_POOL_CALLER
Scott Lopez webmasternos...@infinity-design.net microsoft public win98 gen_discussion I just did a clean install of Windows 98 w/ the Windows 98 SE update directly after it, Windows will display a message that says something similar to "Copying files..." and then it will go to the blue screen error.

Win2K Pro installation problem
Eg When Workbench is copying files etc, it changes to the busy pointer, and Workbench cannot multitask. (You can still multitask by clicking on a Shell though). Some people expect miracles with OS 3.5 - don't.. When you install it, don't run any WB hacks, etc etc.. It's probably better to do a clean install,

hangs at "Copying files needed for windows setup"
I just did a clean install of Windows 98 w/ the Windows 98 SE update directly after it, and did not initially make any user profiles. I have simply been pressing cancel when it asked me Windows will display a message that says something similar to "Copying files..." and then it will go to the blue screen error.

P2B Locks up while installing Win98
I am trying to do a clean install with an OEM full version of ME. When the install gets to the point of copying files it hangs the system anywhere between 3-16% of files copied. This is happening each time I trry to install ME/win98SE or XP Pro to the freshly f/disked & formatted drive.

Windows XP Hangs at Preparing installation Phase
... allow CD-ROM boot to XP CD; which it did -- hoping for "clean install." All steps seemed OK including format C:; inserting WinME CD to authenticate; copying files. There it hangs. I went through this sane routine 3 times (install WinME to upgrade & format C: for clean install). Same end result every time.

Can't install Windows - very odd.
It also hangs a bit in the beginning during setup at drivers.cab, but it does keep going from that point up to the place that I am now. Out of curiosity, what is the install proccess doing when the lockup occures? Is it still in the "copying files ..." proccess? I'm gonna bet it's beyond that when it crashes,

Windows server 2003 install hangs copying files
After the 6 ot 7th time it trashed the config.sys file. When I had went into the recovery boot and it rebuilt the config.sys my system worked just fine. All packages would clean install without any more problems. You may want to have it rebuild your config.sys after saving a copy. Then integrate the necessary

Clean Install problems
The problem was caused by faulty RAM. tvb68 -----Original Message----- -----Original Message----- "tvb68" <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:0c3801c3b93d $9d0e2780$a0012...@phx.gbl: During a clean install of W2K Pro, I am getting an error message: "Setup cannot copy file filename.xxx" and three

HELP !My HD is DEAD or get VIRUS ?
IF not try this: XP must copy setup files to the HDD before install. I sometimes copy the i386 from the CD to the desired drive and then Run "X":\I386\WINNT32. the install process (without smartdrive) 9) After copying files for 5 minutes the computer hangs with the message "Please wait while setup copies file

W2K Pro install problems
It's a athlon 700 whith AMD750 chipset, microstar 6167 motherboard, geforce DDR, 2 HD 14 and 40 Gb, first one IBM 14 Gb I only tried clean install, i even formated The first fase whith copying files to HD goes ok, then after fist restart it hangs. Stop: 0x0000007B (0x8148A030, 0xC0000185, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Setting up Windows XP
I just picked up XP Home Edition and I can't get it to install. At first I tried to just upgrade from Win98 by having the CD in at start-up and it locks up after copying the files. So then I formated my drive and tried to do a clean install on an empty drive....no luck there either. So I re-installed Win98 and

XP won't install
Started with very minimal WinME install. Attempted XP Home Upgrade in WinME. All steps went well until rebooting. System hangs with message "Press F1 to disable NMI or F2 to which it did -- hoping for "clean install." All steps seemed OK including format C:; inserting WinME CD to authenticate; copying files.

win98 reinstall hangs - how to reinstall windows
If you have the time, it's worth trying to beg/borrow/steal a spare (blank) HDD and doing a clean install of Win9x/Me to confirm this. After all, you will probably end up If copying files in real mode DOS didn't work, you probably have a hardware problem. Could be cabling, could be a flaky IDE controller.

Setup cannof copy files
Henri Leboeuf hlebo...@generation.net microsoft public win98 setup Problem: A SetUp on a freshly formatted HDD hangs right after the 'copying files' with Even delparted the entire hd drive in an attempt to get a clean install. I have copied the install files from the CD to c:\win98, in an attempt to speed up

2k Pro refuses to install or upgrade
Mritunjay Singh m...@cornell.edu comp sys laptops A clean install of win98 is a lot better than an upgrade from win95. I suggest that after you copy the win98 cd, I hit CANCEL and it creates a boot diskette just fine, but then it hangs after the "Copying Files to Disk" prompt. Anyone seen something like this?