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Question

a disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart

by Jun 13, 2011 2:57AM PDT

This is after checking the HARD disk in BIOS 100%, installed with same CD, XP PRO THROUGH ANOTHER LAPTOP, SO DISK CHECKS FINE, BUT WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL THROUGH THE COMPAC V2000 LAPTOP WHICH CAME WITH XP HOME I WILL GET INSTALLATION STARTED FROM CD, THEN AT THE WINDOWS STARTUP WINDOW JUST BEFORE YOU SELECT THE HARD DISK TO INSTALL ON IT HANGS ON THAT WINDOW???
I HAVE RESET BIOS TO DEFAULT AND CHECKED THE VERSION IT IS OLD BUT ALL THEY HAVE ON THE SITE IS THE FLASH UTILITY SO CAN'T FLASH, DO YOU THINK IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH BIOS OR CMOS, HAVENT BENN ABLE TO GET INTO CMOS YET AND WOULD LIKE TO FLASH THE BIOS ANY IDEAS

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That's proper.
by Forum moderator Jun 13, 2011 3:51AM PDT

The v2000 I know of had an over 127GB HDD and you are trying to install XP PRO onto it. XP PRO fails like you said!

Try this. Use the restore media to install Windows on this laptop.
Bob

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I dont have the Restore media
by BWPLAYER Jun 13, 2011 7:14AM PDT
This is not my laptop, working on for a friend and as usual they didnt creat the restore disk so this is a clean istall and the HD worked on another laptop so its not that its a model # V2710US laptop and when I had one it only came with a 80 GB HD and 512MB memory it just hangs at the Windows Startup screen???
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Ouch.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 13, 2011 7:25AM PDT

Nice that it has a drive that XP should fit on. XP should install. If not, it's either broken or you have some USB thing installed that needs to be unplugged.

Given the price of XP Pro, I'd not use that but see if I could order restore media. It's cheaper than XP Pro.
Bob

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NO NEED FOR MEDIA
by BWPLAYER Jun 15, 2011 11:42AM PDT

just cant get the disk to take the image it fails at the Windows Startup screen so i tried the HD in another laptop with same media and it works fine, seems to be a BIOS issue just can't find a way to flash the BIOS using a CD or flash drive????

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Something odd here .
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 15, 2011 2:24PM PDT

"take an image"? You'll have to share what it is this means. I use restore media, XP install CDs all the time but none of the usual installs has me "take an image."
Bob

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