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by mdl3

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my question is about upgrating to winxp, I have an athlon 1600+ system, it has win98 on it, so when I try to upgrade it to XP it would start the setup and all of a sudden it stops saying unable to copy file press enter to retry so i did and it kept on going,it may do that a few times and than it just won't go any more, it would stop in the middle of set up, so it corrups my win98 installation and it will make me start all over again,so I thougth i was my cd so i tryed it on another computer andit worked!
so is not the CD.
It would do the same if i try to install win2k as well,the system is new, i ran out of ideas allready! can some body please give me some advice on this issue, or perhaps some body had a similar problem and can give me some insigths on it!
I;m able to setup win98 with out any problem the problem starts when i try to upgrade, by the way I also try clean install and i got the same "unable to copy file" messege!
I also swich CD drives with one i know it works, same thing !
Thanks!
MDL3

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by yacco

My first thought is that something is set in the bios that is interfering with the file copy. Make sure that the virus protection is turned of in the bios. If it is on, it prevents changes to the MBR. I will give this some more thought, as it is a problem that I have not run into before.

by bly.akr

Have you run the XP compatability wizard on this box? The disks are available in many computer stores for free or download from MSoft. You may have incompatible hardware. Also check for bad ram. You can download software memory tester "docmem".
HTHStan

by waynefisher4

I upgraded from ME to XP, and the best option is to run the disc again,do not try to overwrite WIN98, but to delete it completely (which xp disc will do for you)and then install xp on its own

by joe

It happened to me in two machines. Is the file NTDOS that can't be copied? Mine was that file. I skipped that file and than found it in another machine and copied it to the same directory. Everything is working fine. Hope that helps

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