Troubleshooting Installing Windows

When we install Windows XP with the cd sometimes happen for bad or corrupt data, CAB file not found or can not install it, it's very annoying and what more we really need the computer right now, for it not to save the CD windows xp us anywhere because it will make windows xp cd scratched and sometimes it can not be used again, and that will install windows trouble, save it was in a safe place that out of the reach of children.

Overcome problems that sometimes arise when installing.


here this sometimes happen :

Cab Errors

one of the problems that sometimes arise when installing windows is the emergence of Error Messages like the following.

1. Setup has detected the following decoding error. "Could not decode this setup (.cab) file. Setup will attempt to recover from this situation.
Click ok to continue."

2. Setup has encountered an error extracting the windows file to your computer.
To solve this issue, you may need to boot from the Emergency Boot Disk and run Setup from MS-DOS. if you continue to receive these errors, see the .cab errors section of this setup.txt file for additional information.

This message can occur due to several reasons, among others:

1. Initial possibility is that the windows installer CD is damaged, soiled with dust, finger print, or may have been scratched.

2. CD ROM drive is not functioning properly. optical lenses could be weakened or cd rom drive was too powerful to produce tremor through a laser beam of optical lenses cd rom can not read data from the CD installer with an accurate.

3. Computer Overclocking:
extract cabinet files (. Cab) is memory intensive, so the computer is in overclock higher than its default settings can cause decoding errors.

4. problems ram or cache (bad or Mismatched ram or cache). RAM is damaged and the use of type or size of different ram also likely to cause problems when installing any extract fle
example: using EDO and non-EDO RAM simultaneously.
using 2 pieces measuring 32 ram and 64 MB at once.

5. Enabled it to Ultra DMA (UDMA) in the BIOS Enabling this option may cause the flow of data transfer going too fast to be processed by the system.

6. Using third party memory manager.

7. Computer virus.

Several ways to overcome his problems.

1. CD installer clean with a soft cloth to remove fingerprints or dirty.

2. Use the "Real Mode CD-ROM drivers" from the CD ROM drive that we use to install. if there are no original drivers cd then run Windows Setup from MS DOS mode by booting from the floppy star up.

3. If the installation of Windows from a CD ROM drive problems, run the installation from the hard drive directly to first copy all files from a CD master windows installer on a new directory on the hard drive, if the copying fails, you can bet that the cd installer is broken.

4. Scan your Computer for virus.

5. If information .cab still error, try to extract manual all file cabinet.