DTowleJr Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I'm repairing a friends HP Pavilion a810e system with XP Home. He said that he accidentally hit F11 (Recovery) and his computer doesn't work now. I couldn't get any hardware to be recognized by the system, and since his recovery disks were burned on 2 DVDs, there was no way of getting the OS to read from the Recovery Disks. So I tried to install my XP Pro Upgrade onto the machine. I had to flip flop my 2 burned copies in order to get all the files installed, what would fail on one copy would work when I continued the process with the other copy. Then the system rebooted to continue the install.Therein lies the problem that I am having. The system has finished the first 3 of 5 parts and is now trying to install Windows XP. It starts to read the CD, then gets a failure popup with the following lines:Error:Installation failed: J:\I386\asms. Error message: Error performing inpage operation.Error:SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file "J:\I386\asms\1000\MSFT\WINDOWS\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.MAN" on line 4.And it continues several more times to relook at the CD before aborting. I have tried both CDs with the same result and am at a loss on how to continue.How can I get past this and finish the installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ornicar69 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Hi,I'm not sure this will help you, but I had the same problem. My Windows XP CD was brand new and all was OK until this weird message "installation failure" requiring a ASMS file...And now I know how to go through this problem : just change your DVD drive for a CD/CDR drive. And it works!Don't ask me why, this is really strange. You can re-install your your DVD drive later, and it will still work.I hope this will help you. Have a nice day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majormashup Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) I have been in a similair situation before and I have found the easiest thing to do is to share an image of your xp disc over a network and use Bart's Network boot disc to boot into dos with windows file sharing and run setup.exe from a dos prompt. Sorry if this is a bit of a dirty solution but it does work. Have fun with it.N.B. it's probably feasible you could use a bart PE disc for the same thing but having never tried it I can't advise. Edited January 21, 2009 by majormashup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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