Installing XP Pro on a L355-S7915 Toshiba Notebook

[drjoe]

I am trying to install XP Pro SP3 on my L355-S7915 Toshiba Notebook. I've got the HDD problem taken care of. And now...

Setup cannot copy the following files:

cmnicfg.xml

ipcfg.xml

osinfo.xml

potscfg.xml

pppcfg.xml

xmlp_bdg.xdr

xmlp_bec.xdr

xmlp_beu.xdr

xmlp_ecp.xdr

xmlp_ecu.xdr

xmlp_fcd.xdr

xmlp_fcw.xdr

xmlp_hlp.xdr

xmlp_loc.xdr

xmlp_mas.xdr

xmlp_mcc.xdr

xmlp_mcu.xdr

xmlp_mpc.xdr

xmlp_mpu.xdr

xmlp_reg.xdr

Setup will not continue without these files. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

drjoe

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Your disk is bad...

I just checked and those file do not even exist on a normal XP SP3 CD.

Where did you get your source from?

Edited September 25, 2009 by Kelsenellenelvian

[drjoe]

Your disk is bad...

I just checked and those file do not even exist on a normal XP SP3 CD.

Where did you get your source from?

I bought a new OEM SP3 package online. I also tried slipstreaming a XP2 CD(original) and received the same results.

I don't believe the disk is bad because I can restore the out of box OS(Vista Home basic).

Perhaps if someone could tell me how to format this disk, maybe this would not happen at all. Perhaps the Toshiba drive is causing this.

Thanks much for your input,

Joe

[cdob]

Can you partition and format the hard disk within setup?

Did you integrate mass storage drivers?

How did you integrate the mass storage drivers?

Do you use a unattended setup CD?

Remove winnt.sif and create a new CD.

Do you possess a USB floppy drive?

Use a empty file a:\winnt.sif.

Boot a Vista or Waik DVD. Run diskpart clean.

Or use Parted Magic. http://partedmagic.com/

Read too: Setup cannot copy the file cmnicfg.xml

http://www.lancelhoff.com/setup-cannot-cop...ile-cmnicfgxml/

[submix8c]

(a quote from elsewhere and apparently solved the problem...)

"During the install process, choose to format the partition. That error is related to permissions on the existing system32 directory."

(another quote...)

"As it turned out, the problem was that the Automated Windows XP Installation disk was not prompting to format the partition, therefore, the installation was trying to access a directory that it did not have permission to access causing the file copy failures."

(a quote from me...)

"Google is also your friend, as are we..."

side note - remember that you are doing an OEM install, which requires a "clean install" only (no "upgrade" possible).

HTH

(edit - DOH - same info in link above... cdob is correct as am I - confirmation of cdob's post given here)

Edited September 26, 2009 by submix8c