[BNM] PC Boot problem

[Jason Bailey]

--- On Wed, 18/3/09, Jim H. <jim.hedley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > My XP machine now seems to boot to the windows login
> screen, then keeps
> > restarting, which I guess may be due to changing some
> hardware (graphics
> > card), and it's gettng a bit upset by that.
> >
> > So I try a fresh install of windows, but setup just
> won't copy some files
> > to
> > the HDD. I've tried different CD drives, hard drives
> and XP CDs, and it's
> > always the same files that dont copy.

I've had this a few times in the past. Do you mean where the windows XP set-up is the blue screen and it's copying files and things like ntloader fails.

For me each time this was dodgy RAM. If you've got a few sticks of ram try taking one out and installing. Or get a memtest type programme. I think the linux rescue disks have memtest stuff.

Swapping out and replacing RAM solved this for me but it could be the hard disk.  Would, as  a test??, partitioning it and using another partition work, just to see if it's a dodgy bit of disk??

Jas