Run fdisk and scandisk off the boot disk.

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:51:31 EDT Phillip Williams <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> After many problems and much head banging, I finally got my first
> computer
> build project powered up and running. So I inserted the xp home disc
> and booted
> to it. went through formatting portion of set-up three times before
> it
> "apparantly" was successful. it then loaded the xp files up to the
> point it says it
> will now re-boot to finish set-up but every time it re-boots, it
> states there
> was a disc reading error and to press ctrl-alt-del to re-boot.
> Would this be a hard drive or cd error? I thought maybe the xp disc
> was
> defective but since I have a couple of extras, I opened a new one
> re-did all the
> above with the same results. also tried changing boot sequence to hd
> instead of
> cd. No luck.
> Hope y'all can help since this has already taken an imbarrasingly
> long time
> to get to this point!
>
> Phillip Williams
>
> System:
> Soyo Dragon2 sy-p4I865pe plus mobo
> P-4 3.2 processor
> ATI AIW 9800 APG
> Seagate 160 gig hd
> Corsair xms 1 gig(x2) ram
> Aspire ATX-AS520W 12V power supply
>
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