I am trying to re-install Windows XP on a 3 yr old Dell using the manufacturer (Dell) reinstallation cd. I have formatted the hard drive (wanted to start with clean hard drive)to do this. The error messages that were given prior to me doing all of this were ‘memory write and read failure at 06777E64, Read 98’ and a bunch of other numbers. Also something else about available memory decreased at shell32.dll
So, I am trying to re-install after formatting the hard drive and I keep getting errors from the XP installation files stating ‘cannot copy shell32.dll’ and a ton of other files. Any ideas?? hard drive gone bad?? would the installation cd even be recognized if a bad hard drive?? THanks much for any assistance
